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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by oconnor663 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @04:34PM (#12867690)
Maybe falcolas means that in the same way that C++ is more memory intensive than C for similar programs, because both C++ and Rust encourage a lot of Vecs/Strings that implicitly allocate on the heap?
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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by pcwalton on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:20PM (#12868535)
Rust doesn't encourage that.
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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by oconnor663 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:57PM (#12869560)
I suppose everything's a continuum with this stuff, but here's one library I ran into where I was a little disappointed to find a heap allocation: https://dnaq.github.io/sodiumoxide/sodiumoxide/crypto/secret...
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