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Re:Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, ... by lazzlazzlazz on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:04AM (#38401912)
But what's the benefit of cutting out the full-blown operating system? It's rare that such things would be the bottleneck.
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Re:Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, ... by pjmlp on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:36AM (#38402110)
Performance and security, basically.

Similar to trying to run containers bare metal directly on top of type 1 hypervisors, except unikernels are designed for this purpose.

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Re:Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, ... by fhuici on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:53AM (#38404550)
At least for cloud deployments you don't need a full blown OS when all you want to do is run apps like NGINX or Redis. If you use a unikernel instead, then you severely (orders of magnitude) reduce cold boot times, memory consumption, server density (thousands on hw-isolated instances on a single server) and TCB.
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Re:Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, ... by lazzlazzlazz on Sunday November 26, 2023 @10:10PM (#38427640)
Makes sense. Thank you.
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