> as long as it is properly contained Why are people so afraid of C buffers? They enable great performance, and they are no more and no less secure than bounds

> as long as it is properly contained Why are people so afraid of C buffers? They enable great performance, and they are no more and no less secure than bounds-checked buffers (as long as the array indices are properly contained), and well, this is what makes computers and programming run fast rather than being forced into slow interpreted execution.