Jon Ciesla wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>> Only if you assume that high clock speed workloads are the only
>>> important workloads. For highly parallellizable tasks, an ARM system
>>> with tons of slower cores is a powerhouse. Think a db server serving
>>> huge numbers of queries.
>>
>> Unfortunately, our builds are not that parallelizable, which is a major
>> practical problem with ARM as a primary architecture.
>
> I was referring to use cases, not builds.
As I wrote below:
>> As for supporting the use case for our users, I don't see why we cannot
>> support those specialized tasks with a secondary architecture.
those use cases can be supported just fine by a secondary architecture.
Kevin Kofler
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