[Development] Qt 5.9's new garbage collector documentation? + root_ptr

[Phil Bouchard]

On 07/15/2017 02:56 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On sexta-feira, 14 de julho de 2017 12:13:52 PDT Phil Bouchard wrote:
>>> [1] https://clearlinux.org/features/intel%C2%AE-clear-containers
>>
>> I understand but what's the problem with containers?  I think Linux
>> containers are also supported under Windows. Obviously some efforts will
>> have to be done to strip out some access to the hardware
>
> Windows and macOS run Linux containers by starting a virtual machine that runs
> Linux. The time those take to start is in the order of seconds, not tenths of
> seconds like Clear Containers or tenths of milliseconds like regular
> containers.
>
> Clear Containers on Linux takes advantage that the *host* is Linux to bypass a
> lot of things. It doesn't run a BIOS, for instance, and simply executes a
> specially-prepared vmlinux binary inside the VM. There's no disk I/O --
> everything is Direct Access (DAX) just like on tiny microcontrolers.
>
> Making that run on macOS or Windows requires changes to the host OS itself.

Yes of course, I should have anticipated that. So one option left would 
be to:
- compile the Javascript file for each architecture / platform
- link that "jex" to a portable dynamic library API
- run native containers (Hyper-V on Windows I think)
- run the "jex" executable in that native container


-Phil