Re: Optimizing interpreters (was Re: LuaJIT with vectors)

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Mike Pall wrote:
>
> And, most importantly, canonicalize all NaNs at the ingress points
> to the VM! For Lua that's only lua_pushnumber, string-to-number
> conversions and maybe the bytecode loader. Although I've mentioned
> this important measure before, WebKit apparently omitted it and
> that was the key ingredient of the iPhone jailbreak.

Hilarious! Do you have a citation for that? Google failed me.

Tony.
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