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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by midnitewarrior on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:08AM (#14321571)
This is not a container implementation. Microsoft transcoded Linux system calls to Windows kernel calls. It runs efficiently and natively.
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by koffiezet on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:32AM (#14322523)
That is: as efficient as possible on top of the windows process model. A process fork is still a magnitude slower and more expensive than on Linux. It is however a massive improvement over Cygwin, but it's still very noticeable when for example running more complex shell-scripts.
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by midnitewarrior on Friday May 12, 2017 @03:53PM (#14327345)
It's as native as can be, without being native. It's some amazing computational acrobatics, and it appears to be quite usable for development.
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