Comment by ivanjermakov
2 days ago
Memory safety and critical performance rarely go together. Big chunk of FFmpeg is written in assembly to sqweeze most hardware performance.
2 days ago
Memory safety and critical performance rarely go together. Big chunk of FFmpeg is written in assembly to sqweeze most hardware performance.
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.