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Re:Facebook is looking for an ARM SoC server hardware engineer by ChuckMcM on Monday August 26, 2013 @12:21AM (#6275179)
The tool chain is already pretty much there. That said Intel has been busting its hump to make sure it has a Xeon offering that is competitive watt for watt before serious server ARM chips make any inroads.
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Re:Facebook is looking for an ARM SoC server hardware engineer by justincormack on Monday August 26, 2013 @04:54AM (#6275894)
Thats mostly true, but not 100%, eg the amount of optimisation may be less and code is less tested so may have more bugs, which matter at scale.

There is quite a lot of assembly code in open source stuff, there was a survey here for the arm64 porting https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/OPTIM/Assembly although much should be removed... (the 64 bit port could be what Facebook is interested in and thats way less supported...)

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