Re: Feature request: plain option for gsub

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 09:09:10PM -0500, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
> 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

Oops. Yes, Azul. I was too caught up in my long-winded commentary.