Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing efficient execution transfers between successive translations of stack-based code in a virtual machine environment are provided. Briefly described, one such method comprises the steps of: defining a global translation convention for translating one or more stack-based code instructions on a register-based environment, the global translation convention specifying a predetermined portion of a stack-based context corresponding to a stack that is to be mapped to one or more registers corresponding to the register-based environment and enforcing the global translation convention for each translation of the one or more stack-based code instructions in the register-based environment.