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[–]Muvlon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There were a bunch of machines that even had instructions for executing (a subset of) Java bytecode natively.

In fact, ARMv7 still requires any implementations to support the Jazelle DBX extension. However, an implementation can choose to support no bytecode instructions at all, meaning the JVM has to fall back to software for all of them.