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Why does it matter what enthusiasts use? There are piles of Enterprise software written in Java that can be shifted to any architecture you care to name on a mo
by YawningAngel 9y ago
Why does it matter what enthusiasts use? There are piles of Enterprise software written in Java that can be shifted to any architecture you care to name on a moment's notice. Lots of Java shops would bite your hand off if offered a 20% price cut for instances in exchange for switching architectures.
- marshray 9y ago> Why does it matter what enthusiasts use? A. Many of the people who today specify datacenter hardware came into that career as enthusiasts (aka "early adopters") and are more comfortable recommending what they have experience with. B. Enthusiasts bring the consumer volume that drives down production cost. This is a necessary driver of Moore's law.
- YawningAngel 9y agoI'm pretty sure that the major Datacenter operators run quantitative analyses on all possible candidate chips. There aren't that many.
- vbezhenar 9y agoJVM is heavily optimized for x64.
- sophacles 9y agoIBM has their own jvm for power9 across all their OS families.
- YawningAngel 9y agoIf the hardware is good enough, someone will write a JVM for it that's competitive. As the other respondent notes, IBM can do it themselves.