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gigel82 on Aug 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compil...

v86 is an interesting choice, I wonder why they couldn't compile Postgres itself with Emscripten (AFAIK it's all C code).

rockwotj on Aug 18, 2022 [–]

I'm assuming there are too many details like syscalls and file system specific APIs that they needed a lower level virtualization?

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