[kaffe] Jazelle

[Kevin D. Kissell]

> >     I would appreciate if you could share some thoughts and/or
> > knowledge about Jazelle and its performance and adoption.
> 
> For all I know, Kaffe doesn't use it, so it's hard to say what its
> performance impact is. I don't know any free software VM or compiler
> toolchain actually using it, so I don't think it has been adopted widely
> outside of Jazelle-specific proprietary solutions.

It is my understanding - thought I've never heard this directly from ARM - that
enabling the Jazelle hardware requires initialization code that is proprietary
and licensed, and which is unavailable to open-source developers.

            Regards,

            Kevin K.