Comment by IshKebab
10 days ago
Yeah, because they are both "add more security". I totally understand that they are different. But if you just want "more security" then they are both reasonable options to pick, and it makes sense to compare their performance.
It's like comparing apples and oranges - which I always found to be a weird saying because of course it makes sense to compare apples and oranges.
Edit: looked it up and apparently it was originally "apples and oysters" which makes way more sense
https://english.stackexchange.com/a/132907/114887
Although even then it isn't incorrect to compare them. Perhaps you have to choose a canapé, we could have tiny slices of delicious apples, or succulent oysters. But it's impossible to chose because there's no way to compare them arrrghhh!
I wonder what the "most different" two things are.
> But if you just want "more security" then they are both reasonable options to pick
The only people doing “more security” are the actors in the security theater business.
If you’re serious about security, you’re going to have a threat model. And I cannot imagine a threat model that is addressed by both Fil-C and RLbox in a similar enough way to where you’d be choosing between them based on perf
Apples and the abstract concept of the imaginary unit i?