VM

From SlateWiki

Slate runs on an stack-oriented virtual machine consisting of a 16 bytecode instruction set, a stub loader for the image file, and a library of primitive routines for basic object operations, arithmetic, heap introspection and control, and I/O via console, FFI, files, etc. The VM is written in a Slate dialect called Pidgin which is translated to C and then linked and compiled to form the Slate executable currently.

The Mobius Manual (http://slate.tunes.org/doc/mobius/#SECTION00070000000000000000) has specific details.