Making good progress on arm64 emulation in Quilibrium's MetaVM, also swapped out my hand rolled Ferret OT implementation for a much more polished library. It proved beneficial, now I'm managing to swing around 60 million instructions per second on baseline hardware, much closer to ideal conditions.

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Nodding my head saying, cool, cool, and pretending I know what implications all this has.

Regardless, always impressed at your breath of knowledge and articulation.

I hope you don’t get mad at me for this.

You just woMansplained the shit out of this, I understood too, so thank you for taking the time!

I realize now that may have been the obvious part — Ferret is a construction of Oblivious Transfer, a cryptographic technique for relaying data such that the sender does not know which bits of information they conveyed, and the receiver does not learn what the other bits were.

Instructions per second is similar to clock speed in certain respects (though not completely!), and having a high instruction speed makes emulation sufficiently useful for cases where developers cannot (or don’t want to) move directly to Quilibrium-native development of services.