Arena/Segment allocator and zero initialized MemorySegment

[Pedro Lamarão]

Em qua., 5 de jun. de 2024 às 14:51, Maurizio Cimadamore <
maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> escreveu:

> On 05/06/2024 18:25, Pedro Lamarão wrote:
>
> Also, as this discussion suggests, what appears to be a universal
> interface may actually not be universal at all, and perhaps it is best to
> have libraries define their own allocator interfaces and see what emerges
> from that.
>
> This is the thing we keep (re)learning when thinking about allocators in
> FFM. It is tempting to hardwire something to cater specific needs, but in
> reality specific libraries will work with very specific set of constraints,
> so our best bet is to somehow support such things to be built on top.
>

Security libraries require the weird property of "zeroing before release",
and that would be just the beginning on "secure memory" properties.

--
 Pedro
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