For the same reasons any 64-bit application is desirable, to be able to address more than 4G of VM. Although in this case it's not a particular app but the JVM for Java apps so in theory a64-bit JVM ...
Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has released the LavaCore Java soft 32-bit processor core, which targets embedded Java applications and such smart Internet appliances as wireless phones, set-top boxes, ...
Jazelle Extension Another way to speed Java execution on a standard RISC architecture is to extend the architecture itself, to directly execute Java instructions. ARM designers added a new Java ...