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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by Shikadi on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:19PM (#19871319)
That's what smart pointers/ref counting is for
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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by tptacek on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:52PM (#19871684)
C++ is the flagship language for smart pointers and UAF memory corruption flaws are endemic to it.
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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by rayiner on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:52PM (#19872801)
Made me think of this: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/04/virtually-unl...
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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by tjoff on Saturday May 11, 2019 @03:18AM (#19885030)
Doesn't seem related though?

Unless you want to pick on the specific implementation?

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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by UncleMeat on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:02PM (#19883092)
That's literally GC.
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