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by appehuli 2036 days ago
> By startup time you might be referring to NixOS

I was referring to application startup which is an issue for snap & flatpak. I'd like to know how it (Nix + sandboxing solution like bubblewrap) compares to flatpak.

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Nix doesn’t sandbox applications, it is basically only patches the ELF header so that it links to nix store entries instead of /usr/lib when it comes to shared libs.

So While I don’t have benchmarks, it is basically in the same ballpark as Arch programs.