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Jazelle and micro-ops are not interpreters, they are executed in hardware.
by saagarjha 7mo ago
Jazelle and micro-ops are not interpreters, they are executed in hardware.
- lolsowrong 7mo agoI believe only some parts of Jazelle are handled in hardware, though I don’t know if anybody has got their hands on any of the bits of the software side. I do know there’s documentation on handling unimplemented instructions. I don’t know how I feel about micro-ops being executed in hardware - I mostly agree, but also, microcode updates exist…
- fc417fc802 7mo agoAn interpreter implemented in hardware is still an interpreter. Hot take, all machine instruction sets are scripting languages and LLVM is a transpiler.