It's different in kind. The JVM completely abstracts away things like class loading from the perspective of bytecode - that stuff seems to happen like magic. Di

It's different in kind. The JVM completely abstracts away things like class loading from the perspective of bytecode - that stuff seems to happen like magic. Ditto exception handling, stack frame linkage, memory allocation, etc. Viewing all of code and data living together in a big array is important, I think. You don't understand e.g. dynamically generated thunks and shims without seeing the duality of code and data at the execution level.