VM
A computer system simulated by software that provides the functionality of a complete hardware system and runs in a fully isolated environment, widely used in cloud computing and virtualization scenarios.
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A Smalltalk system usually consists of two parts: a virtual machine (VM) written in a low-level language such as C that handles memory management and bytecode execution, and an image running on top of it that contains the compiler and all the tools.
If a new IDE reuses an existing VM, it can immediately gain mature just-in-time compilation (JIT), garbage collection, and FFI capabilities, at the cost of being constrained by that VM's capability boundaries and license.
If a new IDE builds its own runtime, it may introduce a more modern concurrency model or a smaller footprint, but it must rebuild performance-critical paths from scratch and faces the risk of being unable to directly run code from the existing ecosystem.
Cloud Agent platforms start a brand-new sandbox environment for each session; most platforms use Docker containers, while some platforms allocate a full VM.
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A Smalltalk system usually consists of two parts: a virtual machine (VM) written in a low-level language such as C that handles memory management and bytecode execution, and an image running on top of it that contains the compiler and all the tools.
50%UnverifiedIf a new IDE reuses an existing VM, it can immediately gain mature just-in-time compilation (JIT), garbage collection, and FFI capabilities, at the cost of being constrained by that VM's capability boundaries and license.
50%UnverifiedIf a new IDE builds its own runtime, it may introduce a more modern concurrency model or a smaller footprint, but it must rebuild performance-critical paths from scratch and faces the risk of being unable to directly run code from the existing ecosystem.
50%UnverifiedCloud Agent platforms start a brand-new sandbox environment for each session; most platforms use Docker containers, while some platforms allocate a full VM.
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