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roblabla on May 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ri...

The point isn't to be safe, the point is to be both safe and fast.

phkahler on May 30, 2018 [–]

Lower privilege levels don't really convey performance benefits. I suppose syscall overhead may impact some applications, but one should not be running untrusted code where the performance bottleneck is accessing the system.

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