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Re:The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable futu... by lambda on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:56PM (#21519154)
Yes, one of the answers I want to give any time someone asks "why will WASM succeed when the JVM didn't" is that there is 25 years more experience and research to draw upon.
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Re:The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable futu... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:09AM (#21521755)
And yet bounds checking access validation was left out of the design, something that most of previous research projects took care to taint as unsafe packages when present.
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