On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:26:04 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >+1 for Martins blog post, which is excellent. > >Having said that, the whole zIIP concept is baroque from root to branch. >Why couldn't IBM have come up with something much simpler?
"baroque" implies (to me) some degree of "ornate". Given the contortions both the hardware and (operating system) software architects have had to perform to support both DB2 and java, perhaps "Rube Goldberg" might be closer to the mark. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
