18 Sep
2015
18 Sep
'15
4:06 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:58:24AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
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
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.