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A few ARM CPUs have not a JVM, but the ability to accelerate a JVM by directly executing Java bytecode (Jazelle DBX).

"The Jazelle extension uses low-level binary translation, implemented as an extra stage between the fetch and decode stages in the processor instruction pipeline. Recognised bytecodes are converted into a string of one or more native ARM instructions."




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