> > I would appreciate if you could share some thoughts and/or > > knowledge about Jazelle and its performance and adoption. > > For all I know, Kaffe doesn't use it, so it's hard to say what its > performance impact is. I don't know any free software VM or compiler > toolchain actually using it, so I don't think it has been adopted widely > outside of Jazelle-specific proprietary solutions.
It is my understanding - thought I've never heard this directly from ARM - that enabling the Jazelle hardware requires initialization code that is proprietary and licensed, and which is unavailable to open-source developers. Regards, Kevin K. _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list kaffe@kaffe.org http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe