[DonHopkins]

How is the ARM not a "JavaScript Machine"?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chip...

>Why do ARM chips have an instruction with Javascript in the name (FJCVTZS)?

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architecture...

[PaulHoule]

That instruction is a very small hack that uses just a few transistors to speed up a bit of data conversion that JS runtimes do frequently. That’s a far cry from a specialized chip.