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		saagarjha on Sept 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Viable ROP-free roadmap for i386/armv8/riscv64/alp... I am having trouble believing that the environmental impact of a running a server from 2002 is lower than buying a machine that is 2-3 orders of magnitude more efficient.

bsder on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

I doubt that the machine is even one order of magnitude less efficient.

The power supplies on that Alpha are 500W and even fairly low end Supermicro systems have 600W supplies.

The biggest differential is probably the efficiency of the power supply.

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