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I don’t think Azul have sold hardware in a few years. Their current offerings, Zing and Zulu, are cross platform JVMs and don’t appear to be sold with any hardw
by dkersten 6y ago
I don’t think Azul have sold hardware in a few years. Their current offerings, Zing and Zulu, are cross platform JVMs and don’t appear to be sold with any hardware.
- ghaff 6y agoAzul was originally a hardware vendor with Java-optimized silicon. They haven't sold hardware AFAIK for probably over a decade.
- dkersten 6y agoYes, they used to have hardware with a ton of cores/cpu's and large amounts of RAM if I remember correctly.
- ghaff 6y agoYeah, it was around the time that thread-level parallelism was getting a lot of love. As I recall, they had some massive number of cores directly connected to each other and garbage collection at least partly in hardware. They got burned for pretty much the same reason a lot of the other custom CPU hardware of the time got burned; if you could just wait for Intel to double performance in a couple years it wasn't really worth going with some one-off design for a temporary advantage.