Oh, I'm not saying JVMs can't work on tiny devices (heck, there are JVMs on everything from 2005 feature phones to Intel ME to some random tiny SuperH chip in a

Oh, I'm not saying JVMs can't work on tiny devices (heck, there are JVMs on everything from 2005 feature phones to Intel ME to some random tiny SuperH chip in a car), just that a high-performance JVM has so far not been designed for that particular use case.