Microsoft Office used a vaguely similar VM-based technique in the 90s, called P-Code. Cold functions in Office were compild to a space-efficient stack-based byt

Microsoft Office used a vaguely similar VM-based technique in the 90s, called P-Code. Cold functions in Office were compild to a space-efficient stack-based bytecode, minimizing how much native code had to be written and validated for each architecture. https://web.archive.org/web/20010222035711/http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/backgrnd/html/msdn_c7pcode2.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20010222035711/http://msdn.micro...