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by namjh 706 days ago
Interesting project and kind of tangential topic, will JIT compilers still be widely adopted given they are considered a critical attack vector when it misbehaves? I wonder if there is an effort to formally verify its safety or do a complete redesign to ensure it.
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JIT compilers provide so much performance boost to code that I don't see how they could be realistically dropped. It'd be like not using speculative execution on cpus because of spectre and similar attacks.