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Memory safety and critical performance rarely go together. Big chunk of FFmpeg is written in assembly to sqweeze most hardware performance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140614



Sure but it seems like most of these vulnerabilities are being found in the C code.


Rust could help with this!


It would be interesting to see the results from a fuzzer, developed for FFmpeg style assembly code.




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