[cap-talk] Google's Native Client (NaCl)

[Sam Mason]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:13:32PM +0000, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> The article didn't mention the biggest problem with NACl,
> compatibility.  Essentially zero unmodified programs run under it.

Yup, compatibility has been the subject of lots of discussion here
recently.  The NaCl site has mention of trying to get interpreters
working with it---if/when that happens matters could improve.

I don't think compatibility was ever going to be much of a focus with
it; I think it's more about bringing ocap security to the world of
web-browser plugins.  In that respect it'll be interesting to see how it
works out.

Back onto more normal cap-talk subjects; how would this interact with
things like Caja, could this be an easier way of running confined native
code in an OS that doesn't natively support confinement?

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