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by pjmlp 1917 days ago
Provided developers actually bother to use it.

Most surveys place the use of such tooling around 11%, which is why all major OS vendors are pushing for hardware memory tagging, as by then is no way to avoid using them.

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All three of the web browser engines are extremely heavy users of these tools; actually they are often the ones that develop and contribute to them.
A negligible amount of source code when placed against the amount of C , C++ and Objective-C written daily across the globe.

Those browsers are part of the 11% mentioned above.