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No. A JIT requires marking pages of runtime-generated data as executable. It’s an attacker’s dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIT_spraying

The entire compiler and language-runtime using a JIT becomes an attack surface. Securing Javascript is hard enough.



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