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Especially since containers use vanilla processes and light-weight access control mechanisms that I wager V8 uses some of. But they are running multiple client
by madmax96 8y ago
Especially since containers use vanilla processes and light-weight access control mechanisms that I wager V8 uses some of.
But they are running multiple client's services in the same process, so that's how they're saving - less context switching, smaller memory footprint, etc.
I'm interested in how isolated the client's applications actually are...
- iforgotpassword 8y agoWell, theoretically, perfectly. Practically, there's some exploits lingering in there for sure. But that's true for virtualizers too, so... As the article says, faster spinup (since v8 is already running) seems to be the customer's greatest advantage only, saving an order of magnitude of memory is certainly a big deal for the operator. I think since you can compile pretty Much anything to webassembly, porting over some existing tools might even be viable.