[HN Gopher] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Portin...
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       The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs
        
       Author : dlwh
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-06-18 06:50 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (rjp.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (rjp.io)
        
       | bgwalter wrote:
       | > In such a system, a human could be brought in to fix issues as
       | they emerge [...]
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       | To begin with, the translation software stripped the license
       | (which for companies is probably a feature).
       | 
       | The output is horrible and it would take a human more time to
       | make it readable than translating it in the first place.
       | 
       | As the article notes, the translated software is fairly simple
       | and this technique is not known to work in general. Even for this
       | example there is no proof whatsoever that the translation does
       | not change behavior.
        
       | james_marks wrote:
       | What's the performance difference between the C and new rust
       | version?
       | 
       | They mentioned the previous rust port was 3x slower, but I didn't
       | see how the new one compared.
        
       | highpost wrote:
       | duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44311241
        
       | dan_can_code wrote:
       | The website is down?
        
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