[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Wed, 2024-01-03 at 13:29 +0000, Dan Cross wrote:
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issuecomment-604592340
> > 
> > Eh? I thought it was WSL1 that had the performance issuses, not
> > WSL2.
> 
> Got a citation?  I'd believe it's the other way around; a world
> switch into Linux from Windows is going to be more expensive
> than a system call, and accessing a filesystem remotely (surely
> how they implement access to NTFS from WSL2) will mean
> ping-ponging between Windows and Linux several times to satisfy
> an IO request.

With WSL2, both the Windows NT kernel and the Linux kernel run on top
of a hypervisor. It's a nice solution and performance differences
between the two WSL systems should be night and day.

https://thecodeblogger.com/2020/08/22/understanding-differences-between-wsl-1-and-wsl-2/
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