I'm having a bizarre problem that I can't seem to track down. I have a relatively large C++ application that utilizes STL map/vectors/etc with >1000000 small objects (mostly structs) of varying sizes.

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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.

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