GitHub Actions on macOS, 25% faster and at half the cost

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Hey HN, I’m Surya and I’m super excited to show you WarpBuild’s new MacOS runners for Github Actions!The MacOS runners are powered by M2 Pros with 6vcpu and 14GB memory. On paper, this is comparable to the M1 powered macos-latest-xlarge runners by Github but are 25% faster and 50% cheaper, with the same tools pre-installed.This is useful for 4 reasons: because Github runners are super slow and pricey and even more so on mac, managing mac infra is a hassle, concurrent CI runs on macs can get very expensive, and pre-installed tooling speeds up workflows.We have teams running iOS builds on WarpBuild runners and are seeing even 70% reduction in build time, leading to 85% reduction in cost per jo

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