Re:Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers
by tomjen3 on Thursday April 02, 2015 @07:08AM
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I don't mean it works as in it runs. I mean that the Python Jit would be optimized for X86. It has to run better to be worth the trouble of using this.
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Re:Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers
by icebraining on Thursday April 02, 2015 @07:23AM
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What Python jit? Do you mean PyPy?
I assumed the standard python command used a JIT.
Is this really not the case? In 2015?
Re:Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers
by icebraining on Thursday April 02, 2015 @07:47AM
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Nope, CPython compiles source to bytecode (ahead of time), but then interprets that bytecode. There's no JIT.
...except for the aforementioned PyPy. Which is quite good IMO! (and supports ARM)
Fair enough.
Some of the things I might do with these don't really have that "better than the x86 version" comparison in any rel sense. I've got a DigitalOcean droplet and a CloudAtCost VM (and several others) that exclusively get used as remote endpoints for reverse SSH tunnels. These would only need to be slightly less expensive for me to seriously consider adding a French jurisdiction one as well...