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rishabhaioverlast Tuesday at 11:43 PM1 replyview on HN

it allows the program to reference memory without having to manage it in the heap space. it would make the program faster in a memory managed language, otherwise it would reduce the memory footprint consumed by the program.


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jeffbeelast Tuesday at 11:53 PM

You mean it converts an expression like `buf[i]` into a baroque sequence of CPU exception paths, potentially involving a trap back into the kernel.

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