I had this crazy idea once! . "Since JVM,CLR and the likes are very popular,why not have hardware accelerated GC or a hardware which can execute java bytecode o

I had this crazy idea once! . "Since JVM,CLR and the likes are very popular,why not have hardware accelerated GC or a hardware which can execute java bytecode or MSIL ". May be Microsoft or Oracle should build one as they are heavily invested in GC languages :). Turns out there are some research and implementaion on this already https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/hamm_isca09.pdf https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/hamm_isca09.pdf http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5541011&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5541011 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=554101... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle A possible answer why this did not go mainstream https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051947