In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 07/19/2006
at 12:10 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Just out of curiousity, why is the zSeries CPU so poor at
>CPU-intensive workloads, like Java? Is it the "clock speed" of the
>circuitry? Is it the complexity of the instructions? Is it the fact
>that the machine does a lot of internal checking / checkpointing for
>reliability and recovery?
It's the fact that the processors are manufactured in low volumes.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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