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0 pointsms_menardi12d ago0 comments

Um... Are you referring to WSL? Wouldn't that be the linux kernel running under windows?

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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.

Dylan1680711d ago

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

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hparadiz12d 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.

Dylan1680711d ago

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

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