alt Hacker NewsUsually in runtimes like Java and .NET there are safepoints exactly to avoid changing context in the middle of a set of instructions.
Usually in runtimes like Java and .NET there are safepoints exactly to avoid changing context in the middle of a set of instructions.
Yeah but we have codegen bugs in .NET as well. The biggest difference that stood out to me in this write up, is we would have gone straight for “coredump” instead of other investigation tools. Our default mode of investigating memory corruption issues is dumps.