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Fast Shadow Stacks for Go

tl;dr : Software shadow stacks could deliver up to 8x faster stack trace capturing in the Go runtime when compared to the frame pointer unwinding that landed in go1.21. This doesn’t mean that this idea should escape from the laboratory right away, but it offers a fun glimpse into a potential future of hardware…
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May 29, 2024Fast Shadow Stacks for Go by ingve12131

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