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Azul was actually selling servers with hardware-accelerated GC and other interesting features for Java: https://www.azul.com/newsroom/azul-systems-to-unveil-ind

by mepian 2y ago

Azul was actually selling servers with hardware-accelerated GC and other interesting features for Java: https://www.azul.com/newsroom/azul-systems-to-unveil-industrys-most-scalable-platform-for-business-java-applications/ https://www.azul.com/newsroom/azul-systems-to-unveil-industr...

dfox 2y ago
Then they found a way how to (ab)use amd64 MMU to do more or less the same thing that they had custom CPU architecture for (ie. GC barriers in hardware).
- rbanffy 2y ago
  A real shame. When they figured that out, their innovative hardware was doomed.