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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by pjmlp on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:39AM (#31538674)
It is incredible how even something basic like new, which most C predecessors already had, isn't never going to be part of it, manually calculating heap allocations for 50 years.
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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by jstimpfle on Monday May 30, 2022 @10:43AM (#31559515)
Maybe you haven't caught up with C best practices. I like C programming and I rarely do malloc()/free().
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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by pjmlp on Monday May 30, 2022 @05:43PM (#31563950)
I have, oh boy do I have, on those code bases where we do pentesting or apply SecDevOps security assessment tooling.

CVE database is updated almost every week on those "best" practices.

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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by jstimpfle on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:54AM (#31567069)
In other words, you're saying that good practices aren't followed widely even though better practices might be available in some of the situations you are seeing? Which would be a fair point, I only don't like the way you walk around what I said.
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