We did pretty much the same thing as Cloudflare does for workers in the Parse Cloud Code backend many years ago--when possible, we ran multiple V8 isolates in t

We did pretty much the same thing as Cloudflare does for workers in the Parse Cloud Code backend many years ago--when possible, we ran multiple V8 isolates in the same OS process. There are certain issues we ran into: * Security-wise, isolates aren't really meant to isolate untrusted code. That's certainly the way Chrome treats them, and you would expect that they would know best. For instance, if you go to a single webpage in Chrome that has N different iframes from different origins, you will get N different Chrome renderer processes, each of which contain V8 isolates to run scripts from those origins. * Isolation is not perfect for resources either. For instance, one big issue we had when running multiple isolates in one process is that one isolate could OOM and take down the all the isolates in the process. This was because there were certain paths in V8 which basically handled hitting the heap limit by trying to GC synchronously N times, and if that failed to release enough space, V8 would just abort the whole process. Maybe V8 has been rearchitected so that this no longer occurs. Basically, the isolation between V8 isolates is pretty weak compared to the isolation you get between similar entities in other VMs (e.g. Erlang processes in the BEAM VM). And it's also very weak when compared to the isolation you get from a true OS process.