Reply to post: Re: Always registered → Clearing RAM

While you lounged about all weekend Samsung fired up its biggest-ever chip factory and started cranking out 16Gb LPDDR5 DRAM

sw guy

Re: Always registered → Clearing RAM

In fact, every sensible OS takes care of clearing any page upon allocation to a process.

Otherwise, fighting against spectre and al. would be useless, because randomly reading old data from RAM by running a bunch of processes massively allocating stack and/or heap would be enough to get all sorts of /interesting/ informations.

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