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Yeah, I’m surprised that security wasn’t mentioned at all. The Linux kernel’s BPF JIT is incredibly restrictive on what it can interpret and produce: presumably a JIT like this would be much less constrained.


Security was mentioned in passing:

> In production we’d need to think carefully whether we wanted to include a big chunk of non-hardened code in the kernel.


But in a sense, security is just part of the engineering required to make such a project a reality. No one is going to be deploying a kernel like this until it's proven, so perhaps the emphasis on security isn't needed for an initial blog post.




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