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Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust by jgrahamc on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @04:10AM (#19309237)
That's not the right way to talk about it. The error was in code that used Ragel but it was all on us. But as part of improving things we have moved away from non-memory safe languages and Ragel was using C.
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Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust by nicoburns on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @06:45AM (#19309882)
Ah, I had thought it was a bug in the code generated by ragel. But I guess not!
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Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust by jgrahamc on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:38AM (#19311731)
In a way it was, but it wasn't Ragel's fault. We made an error that ended up with generated C code that contained the bug. Bottom line for us was... use memory safe languages.
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