Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks"

On 3/6/2024 2:18 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 3/6/2024 2:43 AM, David Brown wrote:

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This is a fun one:
// pseudo code...
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node*
node_pop()
{
     // try per-thread lifo
     // try shared distributed lifo
     // try global region
     // if all of those failed, return nullptr
}
void
node_push(
      node* n
) {
     // if n came from our per-thread, try to push it into it...
     // if n came from another thread, try to push it into its thread...
     // if all of those failed, push into shared distributed lifo
}
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The fun part is this scheme can be realized as long as a node is at least the size of a pointer. That is the required overhead wrt the size of a node.