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Emulation is no way to estimate performance.



Sure, but as a counter example Docker performance on Mac has historically been abysmal[0][1], but everyone on Mac I know still develops using it. We ignore the performance hit on dev machines, knowing it won't affect prod (Linux servers).

I don't see why this pattern would fail to hold, but am open to new perspectives.

[0] https://dev.to/ericnograles/why-is-docker-on-macos-so-much-w...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/bh8rpf/docker_perfo...


The VM that uses takes advantage of hardware-accelerated virtualization, for running amd64 VMs on amd64 CPUs. You don't have hardware-accelerated virtualization for amd64 VMs on any ARM CPUs I know of...


Abysmal Docker performance on non-Linux is mainly because of filesystem isn't native, not by CPU virtualization.




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