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I was told that Jazelle was not popular because it was complicated/expensive to license and slower than JITing. (Basically Jazelle was a hardware interpreter fo
by randomifcpfan 5y ago
I was told that Jazelle was not popular because it was complicated/expensive to license and slower than JITing. (Basically Jazelle was a hardware interpreter for a subset of Java byte code.)
- monocasa 5y agoIt was slower than JITing, but the kinds of J2ME feature phones that ran it weren't using JITing runtimes anyway. And it was for sure faster than interpreter loop they otherwise would have.