Internally, Hotspot doesn't use a stack representation. It converts it to an IR (internal representation) which is not stack based, which is my point. See Fig 2

Internally, Hotspot doesn't use a stack representation. It converts it to an IR (internal representation) which is not stack based, which is my point. See Fig 2 from http://www-leland.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/java-hotspot.pdf http://www-leland.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/java-ho...