Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.

For the past 7 years I've been working almost exclusively with Java, with a bit of csh/bash scripting and a few simple single-line fixes to C code. My C++ experience is pre-1997. Temporarily, however, ...