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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by 0x6c6f6c on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:23PM (#38078822)
This isn't as much the case anymore. There are typically arm64 images available for the more popular images, and anything you build locally is native, unless you're trying to build x86 software.

Redis, Memcached, PostgreSQL, MySQL- it's all native arm64 images now.

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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by soulofmischief on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:32PM (#38078923)
> if you're not running ARM images
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by mat_epice on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:45PM (#38079056)
The point was that there is rarely a reason to not run ARM images, since they’re widely available.

If I’m running M3 images on my Ryzen, performance is gonna be horrible, but why would I?

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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by soulofmischief on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:48PM (#38079084)
Today? Sure. Thus my statement, which came with a caveat about not running ARM images, the implication being that it's a rare thing today.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by mr_toad on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:53PM (#38079131)
Even using ARM images you still need a VM because the MacOS kernel is not a Linux kernel, and containers rely on features of that kernel.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by steve1977 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:54AM (#38082376)
That only really helps if you also want to deploy on arm64. Developing on one architecture and deploying on another would kind of destroy on of the advantages of containers.
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