"After nearly a year of hard work the JNode team is proud to announce the release of JNode 0.2.5, the new intermediary development version of the JNode operating system. JNode is a free, open source Java technology base OS written fully in Java language (with a very small assembler nano-kernel). This release features OpenJDK integration, Java 6 support, substantially impoved consoles, experimental support for isolates and a large set of bug fixes and improvements to all parts of the system, including better memory mamagement and increased performance."
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Alot of the performance issues could be resolved using a feature within the CPU to speed up execution. IIRC ARM for example created a CPU feature which improved java performance by a huge factor. I'm surprised that Intel/AMD hasn't jumped on the bandwagon - especially for the server space.
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interestingly chip pioneer David Ditzel gave his views on why Java processors weren't a great idea in a recent podcast:
http://go.theregister.com/podcast/2007/09/21/scc_episode7_david_dit...
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This Java-FAST (or did you say something else 
meme is so old, people should think twice about uttering it as they give away their age. Now take your phone and load a 3D Java game and meditate on Java-FAST again.
And a pretty picture: Java is OK, it's portable, scalable, standardized, runs pretty applications, servers, watches ... you can run Java applications on Iphone Etc.
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This is a very interesting project to watch. I don't like Java myself, but that's mainly because it is slow to load and doesn't integrate very well with other application on my system.
Having the Java VM running as an other operating system makes a lot of sense.