Can we enable JIT on ios >= 14.2?

[rigor789]

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Can we remove --jitless if running ios >=14.2? Would app store allow apps that use JIT?

[NathanaelA]

When 14.2 was released and this twitter thread (https://twitter.com/altstoreio/status/1324473755062599680) was posted back at the beginning of Nov -- I did a bit of research into this, because this really excited me getting JIT and WASM on iOS.

Unfortunately the TLDR is; Nope. ;-(

Basically in 14.2 if you build the app in Debug mode, then one of the things that is allowed by the debugger is JIT because the debugger itself needs to be able to remap segments, so it has special privs to allow it to be JITTED. So technically our debug engines could be without the --jitless flag and any debug apps that you build and install directly to the phone. BUT once you send it to be released to the store; the special provisioning that the XCode has is stripped and --jitless won't work and the app will crash on startup as v8 won't run.

However, it does appear that Apple has changed some of the store guidelines about dynamic download/update content, going in this direction. So maybe in the future, or maybe because of the anti-trust stuff going on they will open up allowing --jitless with the v8 and other engines because Google, MS, and Mozilla all want it and they can apply some pressure...

[rigor789]

However, it does appear that Apple has changed some of the store guidelines about dynamic download/update content, going in this direction. So maybe in the future, or maybe because of the anti-trust stuff going on they will open up allowing --jitless with the v8 and other engines because Google, MS, and Mozilla all want it and they can apply some pressure...

I hope that is the case and we can eventually get jit! Until then.... The waiting game