John Regehr on Nostr: early versions of VMWare were, basically, JIT compilers for the guest operating ...
early versions of VMWare were, basically, JIT compilers for the guest operating system.
one time I heard an excellent debugging story from a VMware engineer who had worked on virtualizing Windows. the problem was that these two JITs would fight each other 😬
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