<story><title>Arm64 on GitHub Actions</title><url>https://github.blog/2024-06-03-arm64-on-github-actions-powering-faster-more-efficient-build-systems/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>GitHub’s runners are a joke. Switching to WarpBuild was the best decision I made for my CI&amp;#x2F;CD. I halved my build time and got cheaper minutes.&lt;p&gt;GH’s macOS runners particularly were complete trash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjice</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re a small team (four engineers) and we purchased four Dell mini PCs to toss into our small office space. The break even compared to our AWS hosted runners (which were much faster and cheaper than the GH ones) was like four or five months, plus they cut the time again by over half. We have to deal with them if something weird happens, but it&amp;#x27;s been such a low time investment that it has been such a great choice.&lt;p&gt;Plus, who doesn&amp;#x27;t love having some new hardware to play with?</text></comment>
<story><title>Arm64 on GitHub Actions</title><url>https://github.blog/2024-06-03-arm64-on-github-actions-powering-faster-more-efficient-build-systems/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>GitHub’s runners are a joke. Switching to WarpBuild was the best decision I made for my CI&amp;#x2F;CD. I halved my build time and got cheaper minutes.&lt;p&gt;GH’s macOS runners particularly were complete trash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>999900000999</author><text>I understand the Mac builds, but the entire appeal of GitHub runners is it&amp;#x27;s literally built in. I can just add a YAML file, and we have CICD!</text></comment>