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Re:I built a hardware processor that runs Python by freeone3000 on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:38AM (#43820817)
This is amazing! Is the “microcode” compiled to final native on the host or the coprocessor?

I’m guessing due to the lack of JIT, it’s executed on the host?

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Re:I built a hardware processor that runs Python by hwpythonner on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:50AM (#43820963)
The microcode or the ISA of the system actually runs on the co-processor (PyXL custom cpu)

If you refer to the ARM part as the host (did you?) it's just orchestrating the whole thing, it doesn't run the actual Python program

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