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How to make firecracker faster to start Chromium in < 20ms


kernel got our start running chromium in a firecracker vm. we spent the past 14 months making it even faster. we're sharing how we get the most out of firecracker using snapshots, copy-on-write forks, uffd paging, and hot pools.

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