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cogman10today at 7:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

- Excellent of the author to call these things out.

- All 3 things are show stoppers for any real use.

An unstable format which trusts input is a CVE and data loss magnet.


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nonadhocproblemtoday at 7:34 PM

I'll be resolving issues 2 and 3 in the next couple of weeks (adding a safe decoder and doing a lot of fuzzing).

The format, however, might continue to change for some time because I want to push performance even further.

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vardumptoday at 7:32 PM

That is a bit too harsh. Not all applications require those guarantees. It’s fine if you can trust the inputs.

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