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		izacus on May 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux Isn't that what JVM actually is? Java subsystem for Linux/et. al?

sanxiyn on May 30, 2018 [–]

No, JVM makes syscalls to Linux. This makes calls, not syscalls, to Linux. There is no context switching.

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