I cannot wait for ThumbEE to make it into the "main stream" ARM server market. Think about the huge speed boosts we could see?
I don't know why Oracle/Python/Microsoft aren't pushing this harder. Having your JIT-ed code running directly on the CPU? What could be better then that?
DARN! That's too bad! That would have been really cool. I know that there are a few in-hardware JVM systems that are used in cellphones that could be made use of. That would be cool.
> Having your JIT-ed code running directly on the CPU? What could be better then that?
Although it looks good, Lisp Machines, Ada Machines, Mainframes have repeatedly proven that JIT on a general purpose CPU allows for more optimizations than having it on the hardware.
Hence why mainframes like IBM i, have their JIT on the kernel, not on CPUs.
I don't know why Oracle/Python/Microsoft aren't pushing this harder. Having your JIT-ed code running directly on the CPU? What could be better then that?