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tremon on July 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: RVVM – RISC-V Virtual Machine

The JVM still is an abstract specification of computer hardware (instruction set, register set, memory organization). That it wasn't designed for hardware implementation is a very minor nitpick.

jonjacky on July 22, 2021 [–]

But then someone did do a hardware implementation:

https://www.jopdesign.com/ https://github.com/jop-devel/jop

"Due to the small size of the processor, it can be implemented in a low cost FPGA. ..."

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