Single threaded performance just hasn't shifted that quickly in the interim.
In order for the quad core, eight thread 960 to be slower than an Actions instance, there'd need to have been an 8x uplift in single core performance since '08. It's been more like 2x.
Yes, but the 2008 CPU was 4 cores (and 8 GB of ram). Also, that is 4 real cores, compared to two logical cores. Probably still slower, but with much faster network.
~Comparable. Or maybe I got it wrong, both are still dog slow compared to anything people actually use though.
do you have a source for that? Last time I looked, the cloud CPUs were intel based versions that were optimized for energy usage, with a lower clock-speed and lower single thread performance than older (at that time 2012ish) CPUs
My single threaded code runs about half as fast in Actions compared to my 3900x. They're not fast instances.