Intel's Open Runtime Platform Specs

prostoalex writes "The new issue of Intel Technology Journal has a lengthy article on a new platform, developed in Intel labs. The Open Runtime Platform: A Flexible High-Performance Managed Runtime Environment describes the platform that is capable of running both Java VM and Microsoft's CLI, on both Windows and Linux platforms. Full PDF version is also available."

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[Ayanami Rei]

We managed to create a virtual machine that is the superset of the .NET CLR and the JVM. This super-vm can compile straight into machine code for IA-32 and Itanium, and it can do it dynamically in realtime through profiling. It also has a bunch of different optimizers and garbage collectors it can pick from.

All this is implemented in C++. They use opensource class libraries to provide the classpaths.

What I would find really cool is if they can release a microcode-based CPU that runs the superset bytecode. It may simply be a microcode patch to the Itanium. That would be truely wicked.