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If you remember the Transmeta chips from the early 2000s they literally were compilers. Took in x86 binaries but JITed them to an internal RISC instruction set.
by gandalfgeek 4y ago
If you remember the Transmeta chips from the early 2000s they literally were compilers. Took in x86 binaries but JITed them to an internal RISC instruction set.
- vardump 4y agoI think that's how pretty much all of the high-performance desktop & server CPUs operate now.
- Pet_Ant 4y agoWas it even possible to write Transmeta-native code?
- mschaef 4y agoAt least if you were Transmeta. Not sure they ever made the ability publicly available. That would've been fairly contrary to their core message.
- wzdd 4y agoThe x86-to-vliw transformation was implemented in software. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta under "code morphing software". Similar to Rosetta.
- HALtheWise 4y agoNvidia's Denver ARM CPUs do the same thing
- CalChris 4y agoWritten by pretty much the same people.