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Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.

Bjarne Stroustrup first started developing the the C++ language in 1979 at Bell Labs. Back then, it was called “C with Classes,” and it was created as part of an experiment in distributed computing.