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		btown 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Tetris in a PDF For Chrome's PDF renderer, the runtime is V8, so we're literally one (hilarious) line of code away from this glorious future existing today: https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/refs/heads/main/fpd... > // Use interpreted JS only to avoid RWX pages in our address space. Also, --jitless implies --no-expose-wasm, which reduce exposure since no PDF should contain web assembly. > return "--jitless";

Thorrez 11 months ago [–]

You could write an LLM in plain JS, right?

btown 11 months ago | [–]

Yep, but one without the ability to even JIT down to vectorized CPU commands (to say nothing of GPU connectivity) would be incredibly slow indeed!

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