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| ▲ | chuckadams 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sanitizers come with a lot of overhead, and the tech wasn't readily available in SimCity's day, certainly not for Windows 95. | | |
| ▲ | hyperhello 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I was imagining more like some kind of primitive CPU mode that sends every single RAM request to a software exception. Something you would normally have turned off but available for truly heavy duty debugging. | | |
| ▲ | chuckadams 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That sounds pretty similar to what Valgrind does, basically runs your program in a VM with that kind of instrumentation. The details of how it works are way past the boundaries of my own knowledge though :) | |
| ▲ | 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | jeffbee 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | The operating system could effect this by not providing any page tables to the CPU, so every memory reference faults and the OS has to handle them all. |
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