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kbolinoyesterday at 7:19 PM1 replyview on HN

The feature is only on SPARC, not x86. Oracle killed in-house SPARC development in 2017, and they abandoned OpenSPARC after they acquired Sun, so it's effectively a dead architecture. The software won't work without the hardware to run it on.


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pjmlpyesterday at 7:22 PM

Fujsitsu also does SPARC, and contrary to HP-UX, people still do buy Solaris.

EDIT:

https://www.oracle.com/servers/sparc/

https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/un...

Finally, it is up to Intel and AMD to come up with hardware memory tagging, so far they have messed up all attempts, with MPX being the last short lived one.

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