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This is not a container implementation. Microsoft transcoded Linux system calls to Windows kernel calls. It runs efficiently and natively.
by midnitewarrior 9y ago
This is not a container implementation. Microsoft transcoded Linux system calls to Windows kernel calls. It runs efficiently and natively.
- koffiezet 9y agoThat 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.
- midnitewarrior 9y agoIt's as native as can be, without being native. It's some amazing computational acrobatics, and it appears to be quite usable for development.