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The lines are somewhat blurred even in historical LISP machines. Microcode is hardware.
by jojobas 6y ago
The lines are somewhat blurred even in historical LISP machines.
Microcode is hardware.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoYeah, as long as you can “polyfill” or “monkeypatch” in the new JVM instructions, it’s not a huge problem: ideally you take a page from IBM’s TIMI, and you treat compilation as a form of caching: you store the JVM code on permanent storage, and compile it to the underlying hardware on first execution, saving the result until the CPU is upgraded.
- kazinator 6y agoMicrocode obviously isn't hardware since it is program we can replace. It is firmware.