On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
[...]
> > Uh, no. (I thought that) Java bytecode (.class file) is compiled
code
> > compatiable with the JVM, therefore it would run unchanged on a
> > theoretical physical JVM CPU.
>
> Huh? If you have a JVM CPU that can processes raw bytecode, sure, that'd be
> fine, but AFAIK, the JRE still has to translate those bytecode into machine
> code for a specific CPU.
IIRC, the ARM Jazelle should be also capable of running java bytecode
directly in Hardware, so it would not need any layer between the bytecode
and its execution. Of course you have to set up an environment for the
execution of java bytecode, but there is always an environment neccessary.
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