Safe Native Code

In my first Midori post, I described how safety was the foundation of everything we did. I mentioned that we built an operating system out of safe code, and yet stayed competitive with operating systems like Windows and Linux written in C and C++. In many ways, system architecture played a key role, and I will continue discussing how in future posts. But, at the foundation, an optimizing compiler that often eeked out native code performance from otherwise “managed”, type- and memory-safe code...

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