20 pointsby ibobeva day ago1 comment
  • squirrellousa day ago
    Exciting. Imagine shipping GCC at runtime and compiling a whole new program from a JSON configuration file, optimized to exactly that configuration.
    • dwrodri21 hours ago
      > Imagine shipping GCC at runtime

      The security engineer in me had a facial twitch, but for the right usecases this would be indeed be interesting!

      • vardump18 hours ago
        That’s like having extra configuration dependent ASLR on top!

        If carefully implemented the compiler and linker could omit code that the configuration didn’t require. Wouldn’t less code mean better security and performance?