integrating the arm bytecode interpreter into IcedTea

[Christian Thalinger]

Gary Benson wrote:
> I can see that being associated with Zero is a good thing in that it
> makes Ed's stuff easier to port, but I wonder whether anyone would
> ever port it.  Is there a difference in workload between porting Ed's
> interpreter and porting the template interpreter?

That's exactly what I was thinking when I looked at the code.  I don't
see very much of an advantage because you need to write assembler code
anyway.  A much better approach (that may also result in better
performance) would be to use something like vmgen, as CACAO did with its
interpreter (which is broken) or Roman in JamaicaVM.

-- Christian