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Re:Truly elastic clouds with Zerg: OS-less Erlang on Xen by e12e on Sunday March 24, 2013 @12:00PM (#5432406)
> For the first case, I'd rather use something like Google Native Client.

Wait, you're saying Google NaCl could be going the way of Java -- being used for server side containers, rather than client side apps? (I don't really see why you'd want that over using a single process(tree)/binary compiled from go...).

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Re:Truly elastic clouds with Zerg: OS-less Erlang on Xen by e12e on Sunday March 24, 2013 @12:20PM (#5432476)
Oh, I see. Zerovm[1,2] is built on top of NaCl, and does indeed appear to be a "javaosification" of NaCl -- with no bytecode, no dedicated language, but a sandbox/lockdown of native code.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746222 [2] http://zerovm.org

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