Re:Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009)
by lmm on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:09AM
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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
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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.