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Am 03.09.2024 um 23:05 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
> I found the old site where the Sun CoolThreads contest was held:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20070620081114/https:// 
> coolthreads.dev.java.net/
> Can you get to that page?
> For my vZoom project, Sun gave me a T2000 server! Fun times back in the 
> early 2000's.

For servers I think the Rock-CPU was an interesting design. No OoO
-execution and the instruction-level parallelism on each core comes
from additional threads.
But most server-CPUs today are spin-offs from desktop- or mobile-CPUs
where single-threading performance is necessary.