Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86
by linux4kix on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:06AM
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No it is not setting records, but we felt that it was capable enough to help crack the existing chicken and egg problem. We could provide a SystemReady Arm platform that could help bridge the divide and provide developers a native Aarch64 platform that wasn't $3000+ HoneyComb has helped bring better Aarch64 support to many OSS projects getting things ready for better SOCs once they become available.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86
by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:31AM
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One of the positives of having lots of non-speed-record-setting cores instead of few single-threading-monsters is that it helps people learn to write parallel programs.
I wish we could give all software engineers CPUs with 64 Atom (or ARM53) cores and force them to write software that performs well that way.
I am myself guilty of that - many of my build scripts didn't bother to run on more than one core until I got a burner laptop that has horrendous single-thread performance (but 4 threads). Now the big laptop runs them virtually instantaneously.