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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by LogicHoleFlaw on Friday October 16, 2009 @07:24PM (#886363)
IBM has plug-in hardware JVMs for its mainframe big iron. They are ungodly expensive.
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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by jacquesm on Friday October 16, 2009 @08:59PM (#886460)
I can't find anything about that, it's quite interesting do you have a link ?

edit: found it:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-135319.html

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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by ShardPhoenix on Saturday October 17, 2009 @03:53AM (#886758)
According to Wikipedia, "zAAPs are not specifically optimized to run Java faster or better". Apparently they're just normal IBM mainframe processors crippled to only run Java and XML.
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