Shane wrote:
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Agreed 100%. There is no difference between the engines on
full-capacity models. There is no "special" optimization of any kind.
An engine is an engine. They run exactly the same instructions
through exactly the same instruction pipeline in exactly the same way.
C'mon Ed, you know that ain't true - at least one exception already
exists. Try IPL'ing z/OS native on one of your IFLs.
OK. There is that one command, used early in z/OS IPL, that is
deliberately disallowed on specialty engines to prevent users from
"accidentally" IPLing z/OS on them. (z/VM can IPL no problem because it
doesn't use that command.) But, my point is that there is no
optimization that allows them to process Linux for z instruction
streams, Java, or other specialty engine-eligible work any faster.
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Edward E Jaffe
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