Aren't you describing the ideal scenario for WASM here? Some runtimes like wasmtime have a concept of fuel [1], which can limit the execution time. One of the

Aren't you describing the ideal scenario for WASM here? Some runtimes like wasmtime have a concept of fuel [1], which can limit the execution time. One of the Rust-based Lua VMs, piccolo [2], was also made specifically with the ability to be interrupted in the middle of anything, by being stackless. [1] https://docs.wasmtime.dev/api/wasmtime/struct.Store.html#method.set_fuel https://docs.wasmtime.dev/api/wasmtime/struct.Store.html#met... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239029 (see "Fuel" on its article)