>On current chips, x86 machine code is as much a virtual machine as java byte-code. I understand what you're trying to say, but this is way off base. x86 inst

>On current chips, x86 machine code is as much a virtual machine as java byte-code. I understand what you're trying to say, but this is way off base. x86 instructions may not align exactly a processor's primitive operations, but that doesn't mean abstraction makes x86 similar to the JVM, at least not anymore than it is similar to a Bible printed on papyrus. But nobody cares if ancient Hebrew is just as much a virtual machine as Java, so stfu.