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by vextea 881 days ago
Remember when for a while Azul tried to sell custom CPUs to support features in their JVM (e.g. some garbage collector features that required hardware interrupts and some other extra instructions). Although they dropped it pretty quickly in favor of just working on software

https://www.cpushack.com/2016/05/21/azul-systems-vega-3-54-c...

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IBM's Z14 (and later I assume) supported Guarded Storage Facility for 'pauseless Java Garbage collection.'