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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by bogomipz on Monday September 14, 2020 @09:20AM (#24469777)
>"Sure it does, mainframe language environments and .NET have long supported C and C++."

What is a "language environment" in this context? What would be some of the mainframe language environments that support C and C++?

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by pjmlp on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:28AM (#24470543)
Think something like CLR or ART.

Mainframes use bytecode based executables since ages, you AOT to native code at installation time, when there are critical updates or hardware changes.

Only the kernel and drivers are straight native code, this is what keeps stuff from the old days running on modern mainframes, without any change to the executables, although their hardware is completely different from the 70's models.

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