• Badabinski@kbin.earth
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          18 hours ago

          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.

          • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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            5 hours ago

            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.

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      1 day ago

      Personally if I ever decide to host an instance I would prefer to do it on aarch64.