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		freeone3000 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Py... This is amazing! Is the “microcode” compiled to final native on the host or the coprocessor? I’m guessing due to the lack of JIT, it’s executed on the host?

hwpythonner 8 months ago [–]

The microcode or the ISA of the system actually runs on the co-processor (PyXL custom cpu)

If you refer to the ARM part as the host (did you?) it's just orchestrating the whole thing, it doesn't run the actual Python program

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