On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:58:24AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > > You have a lot of byte code virtual machines out there. > > Such as every x86 processor since, what, the Pentium? They're all RISC > cores (designed for and) running an x86 emulator. >
I've been told this more than a few times and read it in various places. It always make me wonder, could we not allow a mode in modern Intel processors that lets us bypass the x86 code emulation/translation and run "directly on the metal" (if there were such a thing). The purpose, of course, would be to gain performance. Certainly this would already have been done if there was any significant gain to be had? /P
