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Comment by bloppe

2 hours ago

VMs are pretty heavy-weight to run all the JavaScript on a modern page. A proper VM requires a dedicated kernel. Firecracker boots the whole 40MB Linux kernel just to run a "function". A container doesn't have this baggage, but would never be considered secure enough for the web environment.

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