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0 pointsDylan168073y ago0 comments

The drawback is you have to rewrite some old code. I don't think there's anything else of note.

Maybe there are situations where switching permissions is too expensive in an unavoidable way but that borders on chip design problem...

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Jweb_Guru3y ago

My understanding is that trying to execute a page that's been written to is already insanely slow on essentially all modern processors, whether or not they care about security.

tinus_hn3y ago

Makes sense, that would conflict with features like branch prediction.

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Jweb_Guru3y ago

My understanding is that trying to execute a page that's been written to is already insanely slow on essentially all modern processors, whether or not they care about security.

tinus_hn3y ago

Makes sense, that would conflict with features like branch prediction.

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