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Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Wed Sep 14 11:43:51 2005
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From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <enzomich@gmail.com>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:55:42 +0800
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: <demonfighter@gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl
[...]
> What the world really needs is something between C++ and C -- a
> language with very clean obvious semantics (like C) which does run
> time bounds checking and strong typing, though it also needs explicit
> escapes in the type system so you can write things like device drivers
> in it. It probably also should not require run time garbage
> collection, if only so kernel code can be written in it.
D aims for that status:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/sdwest/
On the paper, it looks excellent, and efficient too:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=dlang&lang2=dlang&sort=fullcpu
Garbage collection can be avoided, when desired:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/memory.html
A frontend for gcc is available (even ported to Cygwin).
Enzo
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