Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?

Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by iainmerrick on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:13AM (#16752669)

I mean everything, like implementing a javascript engine directly.

In that case, rather than a Javascript engine, wouldn't you have an ASIC for the script itself?

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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:18AM (#16754000)

You wouldn't want a new chip per website. Maybe hardware handling of a standard library, though.

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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by AstralStorm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:10PM (#16756096)

Or even just of the expensive operations like synchronization, context switches, DMA to cache from network interface...

Wait. We have most of that already. :)

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