alt Hacker NewsYou know, I never even considered doing that but it makes sense; whatever overhead that's incurred by doing that static byte pattern is still almost certainly minuscule compared to the overhead of something like a garbage collector.
You know, I never even considered doing that but it makes sense; whatever overhead that's incurred by doing that static byte pattern is still almost certainly minuscule compared to the overhead of something like a garbage collector.
IMO the tradeoff that is important here is a few microseconds of time sanitizing the memory saves the millions of dollars of headache when memory unsafe languages fail (which happens regularly)