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?
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