Re:Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
by ZiiS on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:31PM
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Remembers Jazelle DBX with a wry smile.
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Re:Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
by MaxBarraclough on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:09PM
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Falls squarely into the 'cute but pointless' category.
Java is intended to be used by optimising JVMs. Java bytecode is rarely optimised -- that's left to the JIT. Using the Jazelle approach, where is the compiler optimisation step supposed to occur? Nowhere, of course! You'd be far better off with a decent conventional ARM JVM.
If you're on a system so lightweight that this isn't an option, well, you probably shouldn't have gone with Java. (Remember Java ME?)
[Not that I've ever actually worked with this stuff, mind.]