can bytecode be run without a virtual machine

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can bytecode be run without a virtual machine?

Could an micro kernel operating system for example have a Execution server that can JIT(convert bytecode into native code and run) it without the need of a full virtual machine environment.

or would some other components of the virtual machine be needed to run the program?

and why would it work?

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The short answer is yes. The followup question is Why? – Wug
Your "micro-kernel" would be the vm. Once you achieved one, add a byte code interpreter, Bob's your mother's sister's brother. Real question is what can your micro kernel do and how does it do it. – Tony Hopkinson
I'm in the design stages of making one I figure it's better to make sure that I'm not going down a impossible path first. I have almost the whole design now but this part. this is also going to run on top of other OSes hosted like AROS OS. – Taylor Ramirez

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I believe, that you can always convert any bytecode to the native one.

Basically, it has disadvantage of one extra step to be done + platform dependency, but at the end your code theoretically afterwards should :) run faster.

In fact for example in java, there is so called JIT compilation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation ), so that things that run frequently can run fast.