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A comment on Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux. Parent comment

Re:Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux by izacus on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:05AM (#17186197)
Isn't that what JVM actually is? Java subsystem for Linux/et. al?
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Re:Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux by sanxiyn on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:42AM (#17186344)
No, JVM makes syscalls to Linux. This makes calls, not syscalls, to Linux. There is no context switching.
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