Hi Timothy, On 10/04/2004, you wrote:
>> I've been looking at JVM and JIT for a while, and earlier today realized >> that the problems I've encountered are completely solvable so that a >> JIT, in the presence of flaws which cause it to produce poor code that >> can be exploited, can run under a secured system which imposes >> restrictions making current JIT methods impossible. Such a system would >> mitigate many of such security flaws. > > I think mono kinda does this already, generating shared libraries with the > JIT and then loading them in. In fact, I would imagine most schemes for > caching jitted code work this way as well. It would be nice to have in > kaffe, it just never struck anyones fancy I guess... > It certainly is one approach to the caching problem that I've wanted to try under AmigaOS - write the code as a shareable library to RAM Disk:, set the protection bits as an executable file, then run it under the OS, with full access to system facilities and security. cheers _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
