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   by b1340276 11y ago

   >Because even a just-in-time compiler is slower than native performance quite frequently. No that's not how it works. The problem with most JIT'd languages is that every variable or field is a pointer, every function call is a
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   by b1340276 11y ago

   You are ignoring that the 12 core Xeons are still relatively cheap at $2000 which means it's still affordable to just buy four of them and put them into a single server.
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   by b1340276 11y ago

   The main reason is vendor lockin. As long as you stay within AWS you will pay barely anything but if you want to use both AWS and Google Cloud then it will start getting expensive.
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   by b1340276 11y ago

   In reality it increased competition. No business wants to touch GPL'd code so they simply write their own code. The only thing the GPL ensures is duplicated work and effort.
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   by b1340276 11y ago

   That may be a roadblock but the primary reason why smartphones are relatively unproductive is because a touch only interface has the disadvantage that you can only interact with things that are visible on the screen. When your screen is les