On 24/01/2014 10:23 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque#Modern_usage just about sums it up
Shane ...
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