A VM comes with a very substantial performance hit, especially on heavily concurrent loads, such as compiling (make -j). A container comes with almost no performance overhead.

On 24 Dec 2016 11:49, "Marcin Juszkiewicz" <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org> wrote:

W dniu 23.12.2016 o 19:38, Gordan Bobic pisze:
> On the higher end, a Gigabyte MP30-AR0/AR1 is a monster and it takes
> standard DDR3 DIMMs, but it is quite expensive. I got one
> specifically for compiling packages.

> If you decide to go down that route, if you rebuild the kernel with
> the more reasonable 4KB page size, you can run a 32-bit chroot or
> docker container on an aarch64 host (that is the setup I use).

Or create 32-bit arm VM and use it for anything.
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