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Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018 by pcwalton on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:27PM (#16962566)
We looked at the number of security-critical bugs in one new component of Firefox—Web Audio—a few years ago in order to determine how many of them a memory-safe language would have prevented. The answer was 100%.
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Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018 by yitchelle on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:47AM (#16966220)
Pardon for ignorance, what language is Firefox written in?
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Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018 by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:20PM (#16969085)
At the time the analysis was done, the majority was in C++. Now there are some significant Rust components.
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