How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety (CHERI)

Re:How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety ... by jazzyjackson on Thursday August 08, 2024 @01:01AM (#41188271)

this is above my head but just wanted to mention that apple m chips have 128bit registers, tho I don't know if that means anything wrt the overhead

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Re:How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety ... by saagarjha on Thursday August 08, 2024 @03:27AM (#41188983)

You will note that they have fewer of those and expose them in much more limited ways.

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Re:How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety ... by LegionMammal978 on Thursday August 08, 2024 @01:15AM (#41188329)

I mean the extra 8 bytes of RAM per pointer, every time you store an object in memory that refers to another object, or that points to a vtable. No amount of register size will get around that.

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