Hello! I was reading a manual on the `8th` language, and noticed an interesting feature. Apparently, it's possible to call a word on a memory buffer and thereby mark it as "sensitive information". GC would zero the memory upon release.
Zeroing every bit of memory on release would add a lot of overhead (as I understand), but selectively clearing it like this could help with security applications that deal with certificates and passwords and stuff. This is especially useful, because in Factor GC can relocate (= copy) objects in memory. Does it clean up the memory it copied? Do we have such a feature? Is it difficult to implement? Bjourne, you've seen a lot of the runtime, can you comment? ---=====--- Александр ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
