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Re: [LUG] Raspberry Pi, ARM and Cloudflare

 

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:24:27 BST Martijn Grooten wrote:
> Seeing as there are many people here who are really into Raspberry Pi's:
> here the CEO of Cloudflare (a large web company) says they're switching
> part of their infrastructure to ARM and are able to do so because a lot
> of the (open source) software has been optimized for ART processors by
> "Pi tinkerers":
> 
>   https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/988811355762319360

They put out hard numbers a while back on this.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/

I've also seen some discussion of optimization for ARM from CloudFlare which 
left me with the impression that there is a LONG way to go before modern 
compilers are extracting full value from fancy hardware features of most 
modern CPUs purely in terms of recognizing code that maps to the CPUs fancier 
features.

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