Why Arm64 First-Class Target Status Matters More Than A Benchmark
Arm64 first-class target status is decided long before a single benchmark runs. Platform commitment isn’t announced. It’s spent — in engineering effort a vendor didn’t have to fund. This summer, two infrastructure vendors spent that effort on Arm64 at two different layers of the stack: Canonical inside Ubuntu, Proxmox inside its hypervisor. Neither move, alone,…