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browsers are essentially virtual machines themselves, so to be highly redundant (i.e. java already does this), why have VM's in the browser, which is already in
by jijji 13y ago
browsers are essentially virtual machines themselves, so to be highly redundant (i.e. java already does this), why have VM's in the browser, which is already interpreting code on its own. The next guy is going to come along and make a VM inside of a VM inside of a VM and lets see how slow we can make the browser when its 5 levels deep in abstraction.
- AlexanderDhoore 13y agoThis is an actual linux virtual machine... Not a language runtime. It's too bad that "Virtual Machine" means so many things. Maybe someone has more info on this, but I understand that it was Java who first called their language runtime a "Virtual Machine". Partly motivated because they wanted to create an actual physical machine that ran Java (kind of like Lisp machines). Nowadays with type 1, type 2 hypervisors, and jails/containers/zones, and every programming language on the planet calling their runtime a VM, I'm not surprised that people are getting confused.