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		iberator 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels But 150ms? That's boot time for dos or minix maybe (tiny kernels). 1s sure.

balou23 3 months ago | [–]

FreeBSD did some work to boot in 25ms.

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/freebsd_boots_in_25ms...

deivid 3 months ago | | [–]

You can do <10ms. I was working to see if I could get it under 1ms, but my best was 3.5ms

gpderetta 3 months ago | [–]

for example: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

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