[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Chris Byrne]

I recaqll the article you're talking about and it was on Ars Technica
not Aces.

If you ever want good info on procs, Ars is a great place to start.

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org] On Behalf
Of Kurt Mosiejczuk
Sent: 07 November 2002 22:14
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Misuse of Java


On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> Naw.  Not every year.  But the UltraSPARC III has been out for, what, 
> two years?  Shouldn't it be pretty pervasive across Sun's system 
> offerings by now?

Warning:  I could just be full of shit on this =)

I recall reading about the USIII on Ace's Hardware a couple years back
and about the interesting approach Sun was taking towards making it
faster.  I seem to recall that basically, Sun counted a lot more on the
memory subsystem being able to keep the processor fed, whereas P4, G5 et
al. were putting huge efforts into their caching subsystem since they
KNEW they would far outstrip their memory subsystem.

Now, part of why P4, G4, etc. don't use a kicking memory subsystem with
interleaving and all that is it would be VERY expensive.  So, why would
Sun do that on their PC-competing products?  They probably need to use
the USIIe just to be able to keep that price point.

Am I wrong?

--Kurt