[btown]

For Chrome's PDF renderer, the runtime is V8, so we're literally one (hilarious) line of code away from this glorious future existing today:

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/refs/heads/main/fpd...

> // Use interpreted JS only to avoid RWX pages in our address space. Also, --jitless implies --no-expose-wasm, which reduce exposure since no PDF should contain web assembly.

> return "--jitless";

[Thorrez]

You could write an LLM in plain JS, right?

[btown]

Yep, but one without the ability to even JIT down to vectorized CPU commands (to say nothing of GPU connectivity) would be incredibly slow indeed!