[velominati]

Hi. I'm the PM at Google Cloud on the Second Generation runtimes.

This is based on gVisor (https://github.com/google/gvisor), but it does not use the ptrace sandboxing that is in the mainline open source project. Our First Generation runtimes (aka nacl) were based on ptrace. In our informal testing we have observed the Second Generation runtimes to be about 20% faster than the First Generation. I don't have benchmarks on how it compares to a raw VM.

These new runtimes are capable of multithreading, so long as the language is capable of it. And you will need to use an instance larger than the default (F1 / B1) to have access to more than one thread.

[bpicolo]

Two have access to more than one hardware thread or more than one OS thread?