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There were not physical Java processors, because it’s too hard to emulate jvm in hardware. But there were processors with instructions optimized for interpreting jvm bytecode. These would be pretty useless nowadays (for either jvm or wasm) because baseline compiler which translates vm bytecode to native bytecode is easy and more efficient than direct vm support in hardware.


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