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by Sol- 1336 days ago
Hasn't Microsoft experimented with disabling the JIT for security reasons?[1] Doesn't have much relevance for Python at the moment, but I'm just mentioning it to underline that a modern JIT can be very complex thing and keeping it simple for 3.11 seems like a very reasonable requirement.

[1] Random google result as source: https://www.cyclonis.com/microsoft-edge-tests-disabling-java...

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That isn't what is being discussed here, every JIT has a potential for eventually generating code patterns susceptible of exploits.