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Re:Termux by MarsIronPI on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:26PM (#46858590)
Why does Apple ban JIT? It clearly doesn't ban emulation inherently, so why is emulation OK but not JIT?
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Re:Termux by tadfisher on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:36AM (#46866921)
I believe it's a ban on executing any runtime-generated or downloaded machine code, not just JIT in particular.
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Re:Termux by nasretdinov on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:23AM (#46870112)
Probably ban on any unsigned code tbh
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Re:Termux by MarsIronPI on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:09AM (#46871909)
Then how is iSH allowed on the app store?
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Re:Termux by tadfisher on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:40PM (#46874226)
Elsewhere in this thread, someone mentioned that ISH is a full PC emulator running Alpine. You wouldn't necessarily need JIT or native execution for a software VM.
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