[edubart]

Main differences in emulation context:

- The Cartesi Machine can run any Linux distribution with RISC-V support, it emulates RISC-V ISA, while CheerpX emulates x86. For instance the Cartesi Machine can run Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.

- The Cartesi Machine performs a full Linux emulation, while CheerpX emulates only Linux syscalls.

- The Cartesi Machine has no JIT, it only interprets RISC-V instructions, so it is expected to be slower than CheerpX.

- The Cartesi Machine is isolated from the external world and this is intentional, so there is no networking support.

- The Cartesi Machine is a deterministic machine, with the possibility to take a snapshot of the whole machine state so it can be resumed later, CheerpX was not designed for this use case.

[westurner]

Perhaps if it's possible to generate a RISC-V CPU in 5 hours, it's also possible to generate a JIT for RISC-V with a similar approach? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566578

"Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086102 ; emu86 supports WASM, MIPS, RISC-V but not yet ARM64/Aarch64

Is there a "Record and replay" or a "Time-travel debugger" at the emulator level or does e.g. rr just work because Cartesi Machine is a complete syscall emulator?