Rogers and BitTorrent: another datapoint

[Andrej Marjan]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:33:06PM -0500, Andrej Marjan wrote:
>   
>> I suggest you look up HP's Dynamo research project. IIRC many of those folks 
>> went on to work on Sun's Hotspot VM, which is damned fast on long-running 
>> processes (like server applications).
>>     
>
> But did anyone ever try compiling it to native code and comparing it?
> Given the hardware thrown at some java servers, I would hope things run
> reasonably fast.
>   

Seriously, look up Dynamo. Here's a simple introduction: 
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-1.html

In a nutshell: running natively compiled code through a smart optimizing 
VM can make it faster than native.
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