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But is the increasing complexity (an interpreter added to the codebase) not introducing also another - new - attack vector?
by sharpercoder 8y ago
But is the increasing complexity (an interpreter added to the codebase) not introducing also another - new - attack vector?
- spacenick88 8y agoThe interpreter has always been part of the codebase since it is used during startup and while the code is still being JITed
- munificent 8y agoNot always, actually. V8 came out in 2008 and didn't have an interpreter until 2016. For the first eight years, the non-optimization execution was also a JIT, just a simpler one.
- cromwellian 8y agoIMHO, interpreters are simpler and easier to understand than optimizing JITs. Just look at the recent V8 range-check elimination bug around WASM optimizing +0 and -0 differently in a Math related intrinsic.