It would be better to say that it shows the performance improvements of COG over the interpreted VM. It's also yet another bit of FUD by the Pharo folks. It la

It would be better to say that it shows the performance improvements of COG over the interpreted VM. It's also yet another bit of FUD by the Pharo folks. It labels the interpreted VM "Squeak" and the JIT-compiling VM "Pharo-COG". In fact, both Squeak and Pharo will run on either VM, and in a fair comparison, their performance is very similar.