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Comment by lowmemcpu

Yes. Here's what AWS' page says

> deliver significant cost savings over other general-purpose instances for scale-out applications such as web servers, containerized microservices, data/log processing, and other workloads that can run on smaller cores and fit within the available memory footprint.

> provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances1 for a wide variety of workloads,

From what I read, it's not terribly hard to tell your compiler to compile for a particular instruction set, you just need to do it. Cost savings and better performance are great incentives, as well as Apple moving their Mac platform to it will drive more market share for developers to take the time to recompile.

Edit: Forgot to add the source of those quotes: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

parent lowmemcpu 6 years ago

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