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Re:Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors by outworlder on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:37PM (#24862458)
> 20+ years of software optimization on x86 gives it a nice lead

Not as much as one would hope. x86 is a very complex architecture.

Note that most cellphones run ARM, there are many years of compiler optimizations as well.

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Re:Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors by oblio on Thursday October 22, 2020 @05:06PM (#24863303)
> Note that most cellphones run ARM, there are many years of compiler optimizations as well.

Compilation, yes, runtime for DBs? Unlikely.

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