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0 pointsmort962y ago0 comments

Which other JITs behave like this? AFAIK neither V8 nor Spidermonkey nor LuaJIT rely on segfaults as a normal part of their operation?

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quotemstr2y ago

Android ART uses this mode of operation too. There's absolutely nothing wrong with relying on SIGSEGV and other synchronous signals in this manner and POSIX should make it easier and safer instead of trying to pretend signals are bad and useless.

silon422y ago

Personally I'd expect this would affect the GC more than the JIT. But I'm not surprised that the JVM uses every trick for speed.

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0 pointsmort962y ago0 comments

Which other JITs behave like this? AFAIK neither V8 nor Spidermonkey nor LuaJIT rely on segfaults as a normal part of their operation?

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quotemstr2y ago

silon422y ago

Personally I'd expect this would affect the GC more than the JIT. But I'm not surprised that the JVM uses every trick for speed.

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