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corndoge on July 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unikernels are secure

What's the use case for booting an entire OS to service a request?

hderms on July 12, 2017 | [–]

when the OS is just some library functions statically compiled in and the entire binary is a few megabytes that you can load directly into memory, why not?

floobyhoob on July 11, 2017 | [–]

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