alt Hacker NewsIMO 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)
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)
I agree. I almost feel like this should be like a flag in `free`. Like if you pass in 1 or something as a second argument (or maybe a `free_safe` function or something), it will automatically `memset` whatever it's freeing with 0's, and then do the normal freeing.