New candidate JEP: 501: Deprecate the 32-bit x86 Port for Removal

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Mon Nov 18 02:28:44 UTC 2024


On 16/11/2024 4:00 am, Julian Waters wrote:
> I actually have a curious question of my own too. Is the secondary
> Interpreter that Zero uses the original Java Interpreter from Java's
> very first release (JDK 1.0)? From what I can tell, this was a time
> before even HotSpot existed, so it would be interesting if the
> original legacy Interpreter lives on through Zero

AFAIK the Zero-interpreter was developed separately. If you are 
specifically referring to the early tagged-stack interpreter then Zero 
did not use that [1].

Cheers,

David H.

[1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/zero-dev/2009-February/000009.html

> best regards,
> Julian



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