Author: autrijus Date: Wed Nov 2 15:08:40 2005 New Revision: 9732 Modified: trunk/docs/overview.pod Log: * minor grammar fix
Modified: trunk/docs/overview.pod ============================================================================== --- trunk/docs/overview.pod (original) +++ trunk/docs/overview.pod Wed Nov 2 15:08:40 2005 @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ efficient native machine language. Moreover, many programs in high-level languages consist of nested function and method calls, sometimes with lexical variables to hold intermediate results. Under non-JIT settings, a stack-based VM will be popping and then -pushing the same thing many times, a register-based VM will simply allocate the -right amount of registers to hold intermediate values, which significantly -reduces the total amount of operations. +pushing the same operands many times, while a register-based VM will simply +allocate the right amount of registers and operate on them, which can +significantly reduce the amount of operations and CPU time. To be more specific about the software CPU, it will contain a large number of registers. The current design provides for four groups of N registers; each
