Op Mon, 26 May 2008 15:49:33 -0400, schreef Dan Upton: > The point about them looking very little like x86/ARM/etc chips is the > important part though--IIRC, part of the failure of Java machines was > lousy support for preexisting code, due to the optimizations for Java > bytecode, and I expect the same would be true of a Python > bytecode-optimized processor.
AFAIK "Java processors" are mostly used as coprocessors next to an ARM core (or similar), allowing you to run Java applications at a reasonable speed on otherwise relatively slow mobile phone CPUs and the like. In theory, it's possible to design a processor that can run some form of Python-oriented bytecode quite efficiëntly, but I fear that nobody really wants to invest the money to do so at the moment? -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list