Hi, > On 18 Aug 2019, at 08:35, Shawn Webb <shawn.w...@hardenedbsd.org> wrote: > > Having the heap implementation selectable at runtime would enable > users to make the determination for themselves, while also making > future integration efforts easier through modularization/abstraction > APIs (I'm making a silly, naive, and likely wrong, assumption that such > APIs don't already exist.) > > I hope I'm not coming off as "hey, do this." I'm just thinking out > loud in an admittedly naive fashion. > > Anyone have any thoughts?
Allowing users to select the allocator at runtime would split the anonymity set, *if* the allocator was detectable remotely. This is why we try to use safe defaults, and avoid user-selected options. When we do give users options, we create a few well-defined settings (like the security slider). T _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
