Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
by acdha on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:21PM
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Fair enough — I've used Oracle's products enough to know that software distribution and packaging is not a priority there.
Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
by smspf on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:11PM
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I've been using postgres, cassandra, redis and mysql/mariadb on aarch64. Only ran into issues with MySQL, which we rootcaused to some weird atomic locks not working as expected on the first generation of ARMv8(.0) a couple years back.
Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
by jbverschoor on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:51PM
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That’s a good moment to make your c/c++ code more robust, and cross-platform, like the languages they are
Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
by user5994461 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:56PM
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The problem wasn't in our code, it was in the database code that was either from open source or from a vendor.
If you want a sample. Try to install the cassandra client library in python. It will pull in and compile all sort of shit. That's supposed to be python and easily cross platform.
Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
by jbverschoor on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:25PM
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Yes, so time for them to clean up their mess ;)
Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
by etaioinshrdlu on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:40PM
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Reading the comments here flow something like this: 1. complain that switching to ARM is a mess 2. no it's not a mess, it's easy 3. no, see it's a mess 4. fine, clean up the mess.
Yes, we should clean up the mess! It doesn't mean it's not a mess. And I think the mess is actually still understated.
Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
by stickupkid on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:45PM
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I think it will come down to PRs accepted. So it's your mess in the end as it depends on the companies strategy.
My company definitely had problems to get database drivers to work generally speaking and on both 32 bits and 64 bits. Have a look at postgres, oracle, cassandra, redis, sybase to name a few, I am not sure which one was worse, it wasn't me doing the work. But I've seen some of the C and C++ dependencies that needed to compile with the errors that happened and that was horrendous.