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		ryanpetrich on April 13, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iPhone apps with Unity or LUA JIT compilation is not only forbidden, it's not possible without jailbreaking (once a page is writable, it can't be made executable)

blasdel on April 14, 2010 [–]

My point was that Apple should do it. They've been shipping JIT in JavascriptCore on ARM for a year now.

ryanpetrich on April 16, 2010 | [–]

I agree. That would require Apple loosening the noose though (which seems unlikely)

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