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Re:Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to W... by gigel82 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:30PM (#32504113)
v86 is an interesting choice, I wonder why they couldn't compile Postgres itself with Emscripten (AFAIK it's all C code).
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Re:Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to W... by rockwotj on Thursday August 18, 2022 @05:24AM (#32507177)
I'm assuming there are too many details like syscalls and file system specific APIs that they needed a lower level virtualization?
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