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titzer on July 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)

All the more reason that Wasm should be the bottom of software :)

pjmlp on July 25, 2023 [–]

IBM and Burroughs/Unisys have already been doing that for decades, with bytecode based executables for their mainframe/micros.

Or Xerox PARC, with their microcoded CPUs loading the desired interpreter on boot.

I guess, it is an idea that keeps being revalidated.

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