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		kevmo314 on Jan 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer "super" seems a bit generous. Actions runners have always felt slow to me. Fast enough to get the job done for CI/CD but for a batch job running it locally would be faster. This idea does leech free compute in an API-agnostic way though, if this could be tied together with a GCP free tier, AWS free instance, etc I wonder if you could cobble together enough free resources to run everything you wanted.

ape4 on Jan 11, 2024 [–]

I suspect they are slightly slow on purpose - so people don't abuse it for mining or whatever

pinkgolem on Jan 11, 2024 | [–]

CPU is okay from my observations, but iops is surprisingly slow

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