[Slackbuilds-users] proposal to enable building scripts on ARM

B. Watson urchlay at slackware.uk
Sat Mar 4 18:38:36 UTC 2023



On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, KB_SBo wrote:

> I use VMs to test x86_64 and x86, although I have been a bit lazy with
> 32 bit testing.  All my boxes are multicore Ryzen

For x86 and x86_64 VMs, you get decent performance because of KVM
(hardware virtualization support). No such thing if you're running an
ARM VM on x86 or x86_64, the VM has to emulate the ARM instruction set
in software. Which will be noticeably slower...


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