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by bholley 1654 days ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I believe we use the masking on 32-bit platforms, which is faster than explicit bounds checks. On 64-bit platforms we use guard pages. We don't actually need a signal handler, because we don't need to gracefully recover from a fault like we do on the Web — we can just crash.
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Nice, yeah, just crashing is even simpler, and sounds good enough...