Jon Ciesla wrote:
Only if you assume that high clock speed workloads are the only
important workloads. For highly parallellizable tasks, an ARM system
with tons of slower cores is a powerhouse. Think a db server serving
huge numbers of queries.
Unfortunately, our builds are not that parallelizable, which is a major
practical problem with ARM as a primary architecture.
As for supporting the use case for our users, I don't see why we cannot
support those specialized tasks with a secondary architecture.
Kevin Kofler