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On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:13 PM, William Ahern
<william@25thandclement.com> wrote:
> But what about the famous Java Azure platform with its 100% concurrent
> memory collector? Turns out those were custom-made chips that provided
> LL/SC. But their custom CPUs were so slow that they got better performance
> (with similar latency) by simply writing a low-level virtual machine on x86
> which implemented their cache coherency model. And that sat _below_ their
> JVM. And in any event Azure is wwaayyy slower than regular, mutex-based
> JVMs, even when you scale up. Azure provides low-latency but crappy
> throughput. Which is why neither Sun, Oracle, nor IBM were interested in
> acquiring them.


do you mean Azure [1] or maybe Azul [2]?

[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/
[2]: http://www.azulsystems.com
-- 
Javier