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because the alternatives really are not alternatives, and because moving from something like investments in hardware are not quick and easy moves. I will tell y

because the alternatives really are not alternatives, and because moving from something like investments in hardware are not quick and easy moves. I will tell you once or if ppl figure out then the drain will be pulled for intel

gameswithgo 7y ago
as of pretty recently epic is better by almost all metrics.
- bonzini 7y ago
  KVM maintainer here. Virtualization still has slightly better overhead on Intel for several workloads. Even with all mitigations enabled (they hardly affect AMD times), AMD is sitting at about 3000 clock cycles vs 2000 for Intel.
  - sascha_sl 7y ago
    I've never heard about this, genuinely curious what workloads those are.
    - bonzini 7y ago
      Anything that causes the guest to go to sleep (HLT) a lot, for example message passing between two processes on two different VMs. You can try TCP_RR from netperf.
- sascha_sl 7y ago
  In all, unless you use Optane. Which you might on database servers with large infrequently accessed datasets? Can't really think of many use cases where throwing in an NVMe drive isn't better.
- detail-oriented 7y ago
  I'm currently pricing out a new home workstation build, not looking at intel parts.