David Alsh
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•Created by David Alsh on 11/14/2024 in #support
Is WebVM faster on x86_64 hosts compared to arm64 MacOS hosts?
I am evaluating WebVM as a tool to sandbox a "playground" environment for a internal company compiler tool as it allows us the ability to run unmodified linux-x86 (does it support 64 bit binaries?) binaries which simplifies our execution environment as compared to compiling the compiler to WASM and writing JavaScript bindings.
One concern I have is that the performance is quite poor - but I have only had the chance to evaluate it on an M1 MacBook Pro host so I am wondering if x86 translation is the cause of this poor performance?
Is WebVM faster on an x86_64 host? If so, are there plans to add support for linux-arm64 virtualization so arm hosts can perform better?
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