← Back to context Comment by m463 17 hours ago I wonder how much faster dos would boot, especially with floppy seek times... 2 comments m463 Reply userbinator 17 hours ago Instantly.If you run a VM on a CPU like this, using a baremetal hypervisor, you can get very close to "everything in cache". RulerOf 16 hours ago You can get close with a VM, but there's overhead in device emulation that slows things down.Consider a VM where that kind of stuff has been removed, like the firecracker hypervisor used for AWS Lambda. You're talking milliseconds.
userbinator 17 hours ago Instantly.If you run a VM on a CPU like this, using a baremetal hypervisor, you can get very close to "everything in cache".
RulerOf 16 hours ago You can get close with a VM, but there's overhead in device emulation that slows things down.Consider a VM where that kind of stuff has been removed, like the firecracker hypervisor used for AWS Lambda. You're talking milliseconds.
Instantly.
If you run a VM on a CPU like this, using a baremetal hypervisor, you can get very close to "everything in cache".
You can get close with a VM, but there's overhead in device emulation that slows things down.
Consider a VM where that kind of stuff has been removed, like the firecracker hypervisor used for AWS Lambda. You're talking milliseconds.