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A long time ago they were talking about Java chips. That didn’t materialize and as far as I know there are no chips that run JavaScript natively so I wouldn’
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
A long time ago they were talking about Java chips. That didn’t materialize and as far as I know there are no chips that run JavaScript natively so I wouldn’t hold my breath for WebAssembly chips.
- CalChris 7y agoThe Java chips were for, well, they were for Java. If ARM had designed Jazelle to be more general, it would have been useful for Javascript and Python and .... But they designed it for Java bytecode. The licensing was too expensive and so it didn't catch on and Jazelle got dropped from ARMv8.