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wutwutwatyesterday at 5:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

That's every virtual machine that's ever existed. They are slower than metal and you're running two OS stacks so you'll draw more power.


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bobmcnamarayesterday at 9:01 PM

Hot forking would be a killer app here - far faster to clone a VM, screw it up, burn it down, and repeat than anything else

binsquareyesterday at 7:01 PM

Not every virtual machine, try microVMs.

I am building one now that works locally. But back in the day, I saw how extremely efficient VMs can be at AWS. microVMs power lambda btw