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No, "virtual machine" alone doesn't make things safer.

Shrink your attack surface.

Use a completely locked down seccomp. Use nsjail or gVisor for containers. Use microvm or libkrun for full OS.

Lesser attack surface is what matters. Virtualization is only half of the story.

They are orthogonal.

Suppose you have 100ms audio latency and no wait time. Then, natural pause will trigger response immediately but you won't notice it has started until after ~200ms (round-trip time). Twice as annoying.

You can write unambiguous (UB-free) code and the compiler's output will be deterministic. There will even be a spec that explains how your source maps to your program's behavior. LLM has neither.

Also, if you need to control performance, you still need to know how CPU cache and branch prediction works, both of which exists at the abstraction level of assembly.

There are better techniques for hyper-parameter optimisation, right?

There always are. You need to think about what those would be, though. Autoresearch outsources the thinking to LLMs.

why we keep trusting venture capital to be the community's stewards I have no idea.

They bought the trust.

RISC-V Is Sloooow 4 months ago

It was kind of an experiment from start. Some ideas turned out to be good, so we keep them. Some ideas turned out not to be good, so we fix them with extensions.