It already is. My company runs hundreds (possibly thousands) of ARM64-based instances right now. It’s done great things for our cloud spend. We still have more x86 stuff than ARM because some applications just don’t perform as well on ARM, but I can imagine that ratio will change as software gets more optimized (specifically the JDK, golang’s compiler, and GCC/LLVM) and Ampere releases new systems with better single thread perf.
EDIT: Ampere, not Alterra. God damn tech company names.
That’s actually good news. Honestly, I’m hoping alternative archs would be in the game as well, but their options tend to be less accessible/affordable than the x86 counterpart.
People still use x86?
what do you think run your lemmy instances?
There are ARM CPUs for servers and cloud computing. Of course X86 CPUs are far more common, at least for now.
Wake me up when ARM64 based cloud gets mainstream.
It already is. My company runs hundreds (possibly thousands) of ARM64-based instances right now. It’s done great things for our cloud spend. We still have more x86 stuff than ARM because some applications just don’t perform as well on ARM, but I can imagine that ratio will change as software gets more optimized (specifically the JDK, golang’s compiler, and GCC/LLVM) and Ampere releases new systems with better single thread perf.
EDIT: Ampere, not Alterra. God damn tech company names.
That’s actually good news. Honestly, I’m hoping alternative archs would be in the game as well, but their options tend to be less accessible/affordable than the x86 counterpart.
Personally if I ever decide to host an instance I would prefer to do it on aarch64.
Btw?
Clouds
Cloud is just a fancy word for someone else’s (most likely x86) computer
Next you’ll tell me the earth is round 🙄 weathermen (weatherpeople) are the sysadmins!!! Truth!!!
cloud is simply a service being provided on another person’s computer
It’s fueled by rain and synergy. 🙄
When people say x86 as a platform it includes x64 too
There are more than 64 clouds!! It’s a storm. They really should say things are in the storm, not 64 clouds.
What you on about?