While the approach can reduce space requirements and costs, drug firms need to think carefully about implementation.

A lock-free ring buffer (LFRB) accomplishes the same result without something like a mutex (lock), instead using a hardware feature like atomics.

Suppose there's a 64-packet buffer on the network card—although it would be hard to fill it entirely—and another 64 packets are buffered by the router. With 1500-byte Ethernet packets, that's ...

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Buffer overflows can happen in both the heap and the stack, yet we will focus here on the more common variety: stack-based buffer overflows. Stack-based buffer overflows: ...

In the example above, the buffer layer covers the $200,000 gap. As noted above, it is commonly used as liability insurance but can also be used for other types of claims. We go into more detail below.