Replacing openSSL with Rustls can improve execution time, memory usage, and security! https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-rust-based-tls-library-outperformed-openssl-in-almost-every-category/
The potential performance improvements will probably motivate adoption even in C/C++ programs.
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Are there any PLs that define a main function like this?
fn main(args, stdin, stdout, env) -> exit code
YAML is a funny language: it's not Turing complete, but it can have arbitrary code execution bugs.
Computing AMD-specific instructions on Intel by just brute-forcing the whole execution space and seeing which values differ: