How complicated it would be to take an FPGA and make it run bytecode

>>60886974
You can synthesize C to an FPGA, but I don't know how big your bytecode interpreter is.
Maybe LLVM also has a backend for synthesizing to your FPGA.

>>60886974
That depends more on your VM complexity than anything else.

GC in hardware is a pain

>>60887130
>GC in hardware is a pain
I guess one could just move GC into high level language and VM would expose alloc/free primitives

Do they make ExpressCard FPGAs?

FPGA's are not fun to work with. Every piece of functionality is a struggle.

>>60891794
This but unironically

>>60887107
>>60887130

let's say a 16bit vm as a stack based register machine.