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by Forge36 2910 days ago
How would the math work on that? Simple addition now requires coordination of results across many CPUs. Worst case is N-1 ticks where N is the CPU count. What operation would get faster by such a virtual CPU?
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Economy of scale, my dude.

An organization seeking to market a product based on any spare slack or wastage of their bare metal could stitch together a niche product like this from enough resources, and price it in the space where it nets them money, and is cheaper than something an individual or small business might be capable of building on their own, with the cheapest possible parts.

That's basically the the core principle of every cloud product being sold.