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by pixl97 1240 days ago
Because they pay for the 2% CPU time, not for the 17% local time. In theory the user also pays for 2% less CPU time, but they are much less likely to be CPU limited in their build processes.

Of course 17% more time may not really be that much for most processes. Are we talking about 17% more of a second or of an hour?