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Lol. Well, I mean nothing is outside of the realm of possibility, but remember those native Java chips! Some thought those were going to be a big win. And then
by not_a_cop75 7y ago
Lol. Well, I mean nothing is outside of the realm of possibility, but remember those native Java chips! Some thought those were going to be a big win. And then you had companies like Transmeta trying to do the exact opposite - interpretively optimize all the things....or something like that.
- microcolonel 7y agoUltimately the features involved in optimizing WebAssembly are even more variable than they are for Java, so a Jazelle approach is probably even less useful.
- CalChris 7y agoTransmeta JIT'd x86 into VLIW. That was right before the Power Wall became an obstacle and CPUs were already burning up. Transmeta in a sense invented low power computing but then Intel said thank you very much; we'll take it from here. It wasn't that they didn't deliver. It's just that they were competing against Intel in the x86 space. A lot of the Transmeta team moved to nVidia and work on Denver but that's different and they got an architecture license from ARM to do that.