Here's an excellent google tech talk by Cliff Click of Azul talking about their hardware. Among the firehose of information in that talk, he mentions that the

Here's an excellent google tech talk by Cliff Click of Azul talking about their hardware. Among the firehose of information in that talk, he mentions that the hardware guys wanted to add directly execute JVM bytecode. He told them not to bother since he could JIT it better and they wouldn't be able to support all the bytecodes anyway. I'd love to know more about why that is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI#t=20m00s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI#t=20m00s