VEX
VEX
Posted Aug 19, 2009 19:04 UTC (Wed) by agl (guest, #4541)In reply to: VEX by abacus
Parent article: Google's Chromium sandbox
As the text mentions, the disassembler didn't actually turn out to be all
that much code, so the motivation to use something pre-existing was less.
that much code, so the motivation to use something pre-existing was less.
But also, we wouldn't want to transform all the code back and forth. By
patching the code rather than transforming it we can reuse nearly all the
.text pages and save memory.