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Re:A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf] by cliffc on Friday July 08, 2016 @12:26PM (#12056702)
Azul hardware had a very large core count of low-performing cores. If you had enough parallelism then it was hard to beat - but most applications didn't have enough parallel work, so the market wasn't big enough
Re:A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf] by PeCaN on Friday July 08, 2016 @01:16PM (#12057096)
I… just got corrected by Cliff Click~! (You're like my language implementation hero (along with Mike Pall).)

Vega sounds like it would have a nice niche in network processing. Shame it didn't find a big enough market. It was pretty interesting from what I read.