“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests”

Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by peteretep on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:32PM (#9742881)

Conveniently computers are getting orders of magnitude faster and cheaper, while the software on them - by virtue of complexity - has an increasing attack surface.

I will happily trade a video player utilising 4% of my CPU power and with fewer potential vulnerabilities than one using 0.4%.

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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by nitrogen on Friday June 19, 2015 @12:38AM (#9743028)

When it comes to video encoding, the tradeoff is often between encoding live video or not encoding live video.

I think there's also an important tradeoff to be made in how much of a carbon footprint we dedicate to software. I really don't think we should be trying to make software expand to consume all available resources. We have to be both efficient and secure.

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Re:“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests” by Too on Friday June 19, 2015 @01:08AM (#9743101)

Even when you are on a mobile device constrained by battery?

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