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| As powerful as BrowserPod is, there are currently some significant limitations that are worth discussing. Good news though: we believe that we will be able to implement solutions for most of them in the medium term. | ||
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| - **Source code is required**: Our C/C++ compiler (Cheerp) can compile many applications and libraries that target Linux with little to no modification. We also expect the amount of required changes to shrink over time. This implies that in the a very broad set of packages could be compiled to run on BrowserPod, potentially reaching the same level of completeness as your average Linux distribution. The tradeoff here is that access to the source code is required. First-party proprietary applications can be compiled as well, but third-party binaries are currently unsupported. We plan to bridge this gap by integrating BrowserPod with our x86-to-WebAssembly virtualization engine, called [CheerpX](https://cheerpx.io). CheerpX is the engine that powers [WebVM](https://webvm.io), and it has been tested at scale over the last several years. While native WebAssembly binaries can be expected to run at almost native speed, some amount of slowdown is to be expected when virtualizing x86. This said we think the current performance of CheerpX will be sufficient for many practical use cases. |
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These bullet point texts seem too long to be bullet points. Would be more presentable to have each point's main idea as a subtitle and then the text organised as normal paragraphs.
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