alt Hacker News> run WASM on bare metal
Heh, reminds me of those boxes Sun used to make that only ran Java. (I don’t know how far down Java actually went; perhaps it was Solaris for the lower layers now that I think about it…)
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IcePic • today at 5:26 AM
I think it was far less special that advertized, so it was probably a stripped Solaris that ran a JRE hoping noone would notice. Dog slow they were at least so from my viewpoint, there was nothing magic about those boxes at all.
imoverclocked • today at 3:30 AM
With hypervisors and a Linux kernel doing the heavy lifting, the WASM on bare metal probably just looks a lot like a regular process. I would bet Sun did similar … minus the hypervisor.
I do miss the Solaris 10/OpenSolaris tech though. I don’t know anything that comes close to it today.
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The Java went so far down that many early ARM cores could be placed in Jazelle DBX mode, which processed Java bytecode in hardware shudders