Google's take on memory safety

Germán Diago germandiago at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 18:36:42 UTC 2024


On Monday, 11 March 2024 at 09:55:04 UTC, Martyn wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 March 2024 at 04:24:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/9/2024 3:32 PM, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
>>> I "ported" a few thousand lines of C to D in a couple hours 
>>> this afternoon. That includes the time it took to put all C 
>>> memory allocation inside SafeRefCounted. With the overhead 
>>> out of the way (setting up the SafeRefCounted structs, 
>>> testing, and some minor other things) I bet I could easily 
>>> port 20,000 lines in an 8-hour day. Working directly with C 
>>> macros was the last thing needed to make this go fast.
>>
>> Thanks for posting that, I enjoy such testimonials!
>
> +1
>
> Very impressive!

+1 also. Quite a useful use case.



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