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Azul Systems (who today are mainly a JVM vendor) started by building large multicore boxes (Vega) to do Java workloads - there is an interesting tech talk about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI (2009)

They built a "really good JIT target" rather than direct bytecode for reasons explained in the video. Curious to hear from anyone who ever used one...

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Yes, was part of Team which used Azul Zing and had very minimal issues.The Primary use-case was to minimize the application downtime during Stop-the-World GC and Zing is almost pause-free.

I wonder how it compares to Shenandoah 2.0, which has been spectacular for me.

https://youtu.be/3l2oi-X8P38?t=129

I.... I think there's been a mistake.

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