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Re:Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:59AM (#29549670)
>it was somewhat doable on the Pi3 if you were willing to recompile 80% of containers from scratch.

If Pi3 was so popular, why didn't it exist as a binary?

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Re:Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this... by selfhoster11 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:28AM (#29550196)
The pi3 CPU used an older ARM spec, which had issues with producing good binaries for e. g. Go-based builds (I remember that quite vividly).

Beyond that, I can only hypothesize that Docker on non-x86_64 (or multiarch Docker, in general), was very difficult to kick-start for whatever reason. This may have been compounded by the fact that Docker wasn't as broadly adopted by hobbyists back then, so demand for ARM builds want that great.

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Re:Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:35AM (#29550223)
https://gist.github.com/tyrell/2963c6b121f79096ee0008f5a47cf... looking at this, it seems that debian added it at least 3 years ago and even in 2016 there was a binary, unless you knew about it and it sucked.
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