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List:       eros-arch
Subject:    Re: [eros-arch] Context Switching Overhead
From:       Charles Landau <clandau () macslab ! com>
Date:       2003-12-22 23:17:41
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>  > Wouldn't this be possible with a secure compiler that all code must be
>>  compiled with?
>
>This idea was one of the tenets of the Tunes project
>(http://www.tunes.org/). Down this route there even seems to be support
>for secure operations on MMU-less machines. I would very much like to
>know what you, list, think about these ideas?

In KeyKOS, we rejected this approach because we believed strongly 
that programmers should be able to use any language and compiler of 
their choosing. And because we thought it would be a lot more work to 
get involved in compiler security.
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