I may be "old school", but there's no substitute for well written programs that are both efficient in CPU and storage and the same goes for the software platform they run on. I even get discouraged at home when you have to buy new hardware to support the bloating of the OS it runs on. What are you achieving? New functionality? Better programs? More stability? Some of the new software I've bought to run on my PC is re-written old stuff with more advertisement and fancy programmatic gizmos. It's neither more efficient nor better performing, even on new hardware.
The new school must have "deep pockets". ;) My opinions only, folks! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: J2EE performance? The old school that thinks 80 mips is a lot is used to really well written programs, written in assembler to be efficient in both CPU and storage. The new school that uses Java and C++ has different objectives. An 80 MIP processor is about a 300MHz pentium. This is based on "Barton's Number of 4", where 1 mip is about 4 Mhz of Intel running equivalent code. Not a really impressive machine, unless it is running many workloads at a very high utilization with lots of I/O 7 x 24.... I've heard the new java compilers are much much better, suited more for meeting mainframe objectives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
