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izacus • today at 7:11 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Or maybe there's a reason why the mainline Android OEMs don't ship that allocator by default.


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Groxx • today at 7:49 PM

The fairly obvious answer here is "OEMs don't care about security because very few people will pay for it, either with $ or time". Benchmaxxing sells better.

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pjmlp • today at 7:50 PM

Because they cut costs on hardware and not all ship MTE enabled ARMs.

palata • today at 8:21 PM

Maybe... legacy?