Docker's virtualization model is much closer to running on bare metal (~97% according to random Google hit), so maybe it would get us a significant improvement in performance in our test suite, and indicate what kind of improvement we might expect if we can run on bare metal in production.
Copied from original issue: ualbertalib/HydraNorth#966
From @pbinkley on February 16, 2016 16:34
Docker's virtualization model is much closer to running on bare metal (~97% according to random Google hit), so maybe it would get us a significant improvement in performance in our test suite, and indicate what kind of improvement we might expect if we can run on bare metal in production.
Copied from original issue: ualbertalib/HydraNorth#966