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by verdagon 1207 days ago
Perhaps instead of distributing program executables, we can distribute program intermediate representations and then lazily invoke the OS's trusted compiler to do the final translation to binary. Someone suggested a Vale-based OS along these lines, it was an interesting notion.
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WASM could be such an IR unironically https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet. But I doubt that we would be gaining performance/efficiency this way.