A bare metal physical implementation of WASM. That's right, a WebAssembly CPU (2018)

Re:A bare metal physical implementation of WASM. That's righ... by mst on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:55AM (#27537161)

There were also ARM variants that could run a bunch of JVM bytecode natively - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

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Re:A bare metal physical implementation of WASM. That's righ... by monocasa on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:11AM (#27537265)

It was only really competitive against interpreters. It was aimed at a gate count niche that couldn't expect a JIT, for instance feature phones or JavaCards.

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Re:A bare metal physical implementation of WASM. That's righ... by Stephanemw on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:48AM (#27537881)

+1 on the features phones - I worked on quite a few of them that had Jazelle acceleration for J2ME.

Solid 60fps on those 206MHz CPUs and the bottleneck was actually the display pipeline!

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Re:A bare metal physical implementation of WASM. That's righ... by jillesvangurp on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:55AM (#27537499)

Thanks, that's what I was referring to.

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