Developers on macOS experience sluggish Java startup times when running x86 containers under Podman, despite Rosetta being enabled, due to hidden translation overhead. TurboPod profiles, auto‑tunes, and pre‑optimizes container layers to eliminate the latency, delivering Docker‑like launch speeds for any OCI runtime.
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hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
I've checked and there is no difference between podman and docker on my machine.However when running a spring boot over eclipse-temurin:25-jdk-ubi10-minimal image there is this huge difference podman run 0.02s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 24.960 total
you can see the java app starting slowly. I've double checked that rosetta is enabled on podman. % podman machine inspect podman-machine-default
...
"Rootful": true,
"Rosetta": true
}
]
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Developers on macOS experience sluggish Java startup times when running x86 containers under Podman, despite Rosetta being enabled, due to hidden translation overhead. TurboPod profiles, auto‑tunes, and pre‑optimizes container layers to eliminate the latency, delivering Docker‑like launch speeds for any OCI runtime.
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