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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by mister_hn on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:13AM (#21710540)
About point i, using different languages than native is really weird and in the age of green computing really not efficient at all.

UIs based on JavaScript, Python or even Java are heavier and less efficient than what a platform can do with native compiled code.

There are now also loads of possibilities to build native code, squeezing the best performance, especially for critical systems.

I still don't understand why there's now a hype in using JavaScript or Python in microcontrollers as well

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by pjc50 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:00AM (#21711670)
Speed of development currently trumps everything else. Developers are expensive, electricity is cheap, and software changes at a high rate. If we could reduce the "churn" perhaps people could transition to optimised versions, but optimisation makes rapid change harder.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by mister_hn on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:46AM (#21720381)
as PoC sure, but as productive system, I would always rely on the best performance out there
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by saagarjha on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:22AM (#21710565)
Not every system is critical, and not every application needs native compiled code.
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