Comment by suspended_state
5 days ago
The linking stage could perhaps be performed at process launch by a privileged task?
See this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494183
Isn't a virtual ISA like an intermediate representation? It doesn't have to include static addresses, only symbolic references, which could be resolved at launch time.
> The linking stage could perhaps be performed at process launch by a privileged task?
This gets expensive.