Understanding Memory Safety in Programming
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Summary
The article discusses the concept of memory safety in programming and argues that the distinction between memory safety and thread safety may not be as useful as commonly thought.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledMemory safety is all the rage these days.
Typically, people use this term to refer to languages that make sure that there are no use-after-free or out-of-bounds memory accesses in the program.
However, in this post I will argue that this distinction isn’t all that useful.
The actual property we want our programs to have is a combination of memory safety and thread safety.
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