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Re: termination, can't you use Ethereum gas style termination? I always found termination verification strange, because "gas" is usually more practical alternative.



The ZFS file system supports running Lua programs in Kernel mode. It supports setting a limit on the number of instructions run and the amount of memory used:

https://www.delphix.com/blog/delphix-engineering/zfs-channel...

So it’s been done before. I think traditional BPF programs were really short and ran in performance critical contexts. Disallowing backwards branches and limiting size was preferred to slowing down these code paths with instruction counting.


How would you maintain the gas cout? Per instruction or per basic block?




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