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syndeo | 5 months ago

> 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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swiftcoder|5 months ago

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

imoverclocked|5 months ago

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.

pjmlp|5 months ago

Solaris is still around, while OpenSolaris forks support Oxide endeavours.

IcePic|5 months ago

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.