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Re:Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009) by yuhong on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:35AM (#7304064)
What is also funny is that there was also the JavaStation which was once going to use special Java CPUs.
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Re:Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009) by dschiptsov on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:37AM (#7304071)
Do google for "Jazelle".)
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Re:Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009) by lmm on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:09AM (#7304166)
I'd very much like to see a similar retrospective on why Jazelle failed.
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Re:Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009) by anandroiddev on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @11:15AM (#7305766)
Are you asking about the proprietary ARM instruction set extension for speeding up interpreting Java bytecodes? It failed because JITs were faster, so as soon as devices had enough RAM/Flash/CPU to JIT they stopped using Jazelle.
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