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		mtrimpe on May 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MirageOS: A Unikernel For The Xen Hypervisor Another benefit is that these millions lines less also translate into file sizes. A bare-bones MirageOS deployment (e.g. a hello world TCP service) is only a few MB if I remember correctly.

edwintorok on May 11, 2014 [–]

It also boots faster than your typical Linux kernel + userspace. That probably only makes a difference if you boot up a lot of short-lived VM instances or trying to recover from a failed instance though.

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