Notes from JVM Symposium

prostoalex writes "Steve Anglin, author of such O'Reilly books as "C# in a Nutshell" and "VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell" from recent Java Virtual Machine Symposium. Among the questions discussed are intelligent garbage collection, faster implementations of Java bytecode, getting JVM's for even smaller and lighter devices and stopping thinking outside the box."

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JPM (Java Physical Machine) vs JVM

[knorthern knight]

The Intel i686 is a RISC core, with a legacy X86 emulation layer on top. Transmeta is another CPU that can morph its instruction set to emulate other CPUs. Why not scrap the emulation under an OS, and simply execute Java bytecode directly by the CPU ?

And if we really want to get fancy, maybe Transmeta could be set up to directly run the Emacs OS, from which you could run vim when you wanted to do serious editing.