> >
> > Anyone tried writing a CPU core in Jasmin? http://mrl.nyu.edu/~meyer/jasmin/
> >
> > Looks possibly interesting - I wonder if there is anything you can do in
> Jasmin
> > you can't in normal Java (in analogy between C and machine code)
> >
>
> I've written some javavm asm before (we had to do for a uni project). There are
> quite a few things that are much easier to do in javavm asm than actual java,
> however there are a couple of minor things to consider.
>
> 1) Programming stack machines sucks
> 2) Nowadays most java VMs basically decompile the java bytecode back to sudocode
> so they can do wizzy recompiling, so I'm not sure how much it would help to
> write things in java asm.
>

depends i guess - do you reckon you could do an opcode jump table or something in Java Asm?
Or in MSIL?


to tighten up the execute loop maybe?



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