Philippe Laporte writes: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > >Philippe Laporte writes: > > > > > I would appreciate if you could share some thoughts and/or > > > knowledge about Jazelle and its performance and adoption. > > > >Well, it's a proprietary bytecode accelerator for a proprietary > >embedded Java platform. I'm not aware there is any free software that > >supports it. > > Hej, > Alright, that I knew :-) thanks. > > So for a free-VM to support, it would have to be a non-Free release I > guess since the ARM license is actually joint with the Sun one... Well, I don't know anything about that. If there were publicly available hardware, then someone could do a port. Technically speaking it's an interesting idea. A compromise between full-on super-optimized JIT compilation and slow interpretation surely makes sense in many application areas. Andrew.
