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Comment by cortesoft

1 month ago

On Linux, not much. On a Mac, quite a bit.

Like mostly apple services such as iMessage? I’m asking honestly, not snarky! I don’t think performance is a big factor for agentic hyjinx.

  • Apple APIs yes. But there’s also an overhead when running containers like docker on Mac (and windows). Only Linux has near-zero overhead.

    • Right, because on Mac (and windows) you’re running a VM rather than just setting up kernel namespaces. How cpu and network intensive are these pets? Or is it more of a principle thing, which I totally understand?

      I prefer containerization because it gives me a repeatable environment that I know works, where on my system things can change as the os updates and applications evolve.

      But I can understand the benefit of sandboxing for sure! Thank you.

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