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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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