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by saagarjha 2251 days ago
> To cover this layer of our codebase, we also run Trinity in a “native” mode, targeting the platform’s actual filesystem. However, running against the native filesystem incurs a huge performance penalty (roughly 10x), which in turn means Trinity Native can’t test as many different seeds.

What platforms do you test in “native” mode? What hardware backs it?

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we just use our regular CI infrastructure for running linux, macOS, and windows. we have infrastructure for managing VMs for our different supported platforms, setting up filesystems, and so on.

here's a talk from one of our engineers on our macOS CI infrastructure: https://blog.macstadium.com/blog/virtualizing-mac-infrastruc...