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Thanks for the love man! > "rewrite it in rust for safety" just sounds stupid To be fair, Fil-C is quite a bit slower than Rust, and uses more memory. On the
by pizlonator 6mo ago
Thanks for the love man!
> "rewrite it in rust for safety" just sounds stupid
To be fair, Fil-C is quite a bit slower than Rust, and uses more memory.
On the other hand, Fil-C supports safe dynamic linking and is strictly safer than Rust.
It's a trade off, so do what you feel
- masfuerte 6mo agoMinor nitpick. Or confusion on my part. In the filc_malloc function the call to calloc doesn't seem to allocate enough memory to store an AllocationRecord for each location in visible_bytes. Should it be: ar->invisible_bytes = calloc(length, sizeof(AllocationRecord));
- pizlonator 6mo agoNote, I'm not the author of the OP. I am the author of Fil-C If you want to see my write-ups of how it works, start here: https://fil-c.org/how https://fil-c.org/how
- masfuerte 6mo agoThanks, I did confuse you for the author of the article. Your InvisiCaps explanation is clearer than this "simplified" one.