There were lots of people doing and trying to do this earlier in Java's development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J

There were lots of people doing and trying to do this earlier in Java's development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle I've not heard so much about those projects lately.