RE: iSeries JVM version

Blair?  Can you shed any light on this??

Don in DC

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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Joe Pluta wrote:

> I'm not certain, Don.  Remember, I'm extrapolating entirely from one
> single set of numbers, and making judgments from that little information
> is fraught with peril to begin with.  Plus, I'm comparing an i5 595 in
> late 2003 to a model 840 iSeries in mid-2000, so you can expect any
> number of hardware and software enhancements that helped the numbers.
>
> But the results are clear.  The number for a 24-way 840-2420 running
> AS/400 JDK 1.3.0 was 79316 (and that was actually a little SLOWER than
> the 80348 figure for JDK 1.2.2 on the same machine), while the number
> for a 32-core (16 CPU) i5 595 on IBM JDK 1.4.2 was 880263, about 11
> times faster.
>
> Joe
>
> > From: Don
> >
> > Joe,
> >
> > is there any reason for the performance delta???
>
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