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Their "Code Morphing" technology never seemed to impressive to me.  It was little more than a dynarec/JIT running from firmware on a somewhat specialized VLIW chip.  Said chip was designed to be used for x86 emulation as it uses the x86 flag calculation behavior (flag calculation is easily the nastiest part of a CPU emulator to optimize, well at least when you're emulating a CISC CPU anyway).
 

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Re: From the 'Amiga Inc Partner' archive, Transmeta. Now a penny stock.
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2005, 05:40:12 PM »
The dynarec inside the Crusoe didn't save anything to disk, it operated completely out of memory.  Caching translated code to disk isn't practical when the emulation occurs underneath the operating system.