I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two ideas are well suited to each other.
  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    I wonder how safe it is and if this brings new attack vectors from hackers with it. This is a very interesting concept nonetheless.

  • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Very interesting. It certainly shows the potential a replacement of the very old ELF could offer. It even looks very plausibly doable. Now it just needs to get all distros on board. :P

    I’m not sure I understood the jump from single file SELF to userland-wide.

    Can the SQL be precompiled into binary for faster lookups? I imagine there’s not much variance in the standard queries. That could offer some speedup, skipping the query analyzer/tokenizer/interpreter.

    I’m not sure I followed how the LD_PRELOAD equivalent works now.

    What are disadvantages of using SELF? (Assuming a full OS switch to SELF. Mixed is always additional burden.)