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The problem with memory corruption is not just crashes, those are the more benign outcomes.

The real killer is data corruption. Houw would you even begin to know that data is corrupted until it is too late?



Corruption can happen for any number of reasons. ECC doesn't correct for human error, protocol error, coding error, logic error, type error so on and so forth.

Again, I don't advocate NOT using ECC, but i'd say in complex systems, never assume ECC alone is enough... and if ECC becomes your champion cause, how could you enforce it through every device that touches data, provides data, consumes data or injects data?




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