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cyb_ on July 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

Even NASA apparently has rules against dynamic memory management in critical systems.

> 3: Do not use dynamic memory allocation after initialization.

https://sdtimes.com/nasas-10-rules-developing-safety-critica... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339999

blibble on July 2, 2020 [–]

high performance trading systems use the same approach

(of course: failure is less catastophic than it would be for NASA!)

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