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Comment by hparadiz

19 hours ago

WSL 1.0 was doing something like that. Doing syscall translation in real time. Eventually edge cases forced them to abandon that architecture and now it's just a VM.

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Dylan16807  9 hours ago

Was it edge cases? I thought the main driver for WSL2 was better filesystem performance.

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