patents, tongue in cheek... on a more serious note yagni: for most workloads you simply don't need the dependability and Xeon has caught up sufficiently for m

patents, tongue in cheek... on a more serious note yagni: for most workloads you simply don't need the dependability and Xeon has caught up sufficiently for most workloads. however if your business depends on less than 5 minutes of unplanned downtime per year you need stacks designed for faul operational subsystems, i.e. subsystems which don't just detect faults and halt, but which gracefully handle many faults with a short degradation but no failure. and that's not only hard to master it's also plastered with IBM patents. wrt the jit/interpreted world my personal take is that silicon vendors are very happy about it. very few organisations feel the pain to an extent they innovate things like golang... and once they are in the business of selling compute power (as cloud service provider), there goes their motivation to create a sexy cobol.