That's still really massive. It would only make sense in very high security environments.
Honestly running system services in VMs would be cheaper and just as good, or an OS like Qubes. VM hit is much smaller, less than 1% in some cases on newer hardware.
riedel•32m ago
From reading the article that is the exactly also the feeling of the people involved. The question is if they are on track towards e.g. the 1% eventually.
eptcyka•24m ago
VMs suffer from memory use overhead. Would be cool if the guest kernel would cooperate with the host on that.
Traubenfuchs•23m ago
Sometimes something in me starts thinking about if this regularly occurring slowing of chips through exploit mitigation is deliberate.
All of big tech wins: CPUs get slower and we need more vcpu's and more memory to serve our javascript slop to end customers: The hardware companies sell more hardware, the cloud providers sell more cloud.
kookamamie•21m ago
Windows suffers from similar effects when Virtualization-Based Security is active.
api•44m ago
Honestly running system services in VMs would be cheaper and just as good, or an OS like Qubes. VM hit is much smaller, less than 1% in some cases on newer hardware.
riedel•32m ago
eptcyka•24m ago