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saagarjha on March 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exp...

I seem to recall having a discussion with you a while back where Windows would just leave kernel pointers out in userspace, which seemed to do with GDI as well.

jdsully on March 24, 2020 [–]

Yes, I think we debated the whole concept of GDI being in the kernel as well.

The Vista experience shows you it was and still is necessary for perf.

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