Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by beej71 103 days ago
I think these are are excellent points, but the complaint talks about significant performance and power issues.
1 comments

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.
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

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