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josephcsible on July 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

> there is no difference between a heavyweight runtime or a lightweight VM.

There's a big difference. A runtime is just functions that get called, but a VM means that you have bytecode that it's interpreting instead of native code.

corty on July 2, 2020 [–]

Bytecode is not necessary for it to be a VM, otherwise KVM wouldn't be a VM because it just executes machine code as is mostly.

josephcsible on July 2, 2020 | [–]

That's a VM in a different sense.

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