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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video] by randomifcpfan on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:23AM (#26965566)
I was told that Jazelle was not popular because it was complicated/expensive to license and slower than JITing. (Basically Jazelle was a hardware interpreter for a subset of Java byte code.)
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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video] by monocasa on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:35AM (#26965633)
It was slower than JITing, but the kinds of J2ME feature phones that ran it weren't using JITing runtimes anyway. And it was for sure faster than interpreter loop they otherwise would have.
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