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Re:Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly by int_19h on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:44AM (#19168729)
But surely that is also fundamentally a solved problem? I mean, we've had distributed systems for a long time, and they had to deal with all the same issues - lifetime, security etc.
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Re:Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly by olliej on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:04AM (#19168803)
Distributed systems are designed (for better or worth) on the idea of non-malicious nodes.

Those that aren't have an extremely limited API - that would be logically not dissimilar from "untrusted wasm talks to more trusted JS".

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