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Re:Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux by masklinn on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @06:43AM (#17186554)
> Having web assembly be a native subsystem... That's brilliant. Why has this not been attempted for Java or anything else for that matter?

There have been CPUs which could execute Java bytecode directly…

And not just actual Java processors, ARM has/had an extension for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

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Re:Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux by jchw on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:06AM (#17187339)
I was aware of the Java CPUs, but somehow that seems less interesting. Maybe because at that point, it's not so different from any other CPU architecture.
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