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Apple will start allowing emulators on the iOS App Store (9to5mac.com)

submitted 7 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

which is why there are no browsers other than Safari

Wasn't that explicitly forbidden? Browsers don't need jit to be fast enough

Edit: was jit explicitly forbidden? Or is it that running dynamically loaded code was forbidden in general and jit falls under that category? If they're letting emulators and other browser engines in that ban seems to be at least partially lifted

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yes, op is a little confused.

Browsers (were, still are in many regions) forbidden from using any engine other than the iOS provided webkit.
Dynamic recompilation is not possible on iOS because of how iOS does code signing. This basically blocks the entire concept of executing instructions that weren't part of the original signed code.