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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by willtim on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:39AM (#13808889)
It's worth pointing out that the majority of large C++ projects contain non-deterministic memory management (reference counting) and cache-inefficient object structures like C#.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by iopq on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:44AM (#13808904)
Absolutely. But note that if you don't have cycles, reference counting of SOME objects is faster than having a GC for everything. The RAII idiom when used in C++ helps with statically determining that some objects can be released at defined points without having to reference count them.
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