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Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug
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By Nathan Bronson, Member of Technical StaffOpenAI’s models and agents increasingly rely on scalable data infrastructure in order to search for relevant data at inference time: when the models are thinking about your question. Some of these services are written in C++, whose low-level control of the system lets us maximize performance and minimize memory usage. Those efficiency benefits are important as we scale, but C++’s lack of memory safety means that bugs can cause crashes by writing to incorrect or non-existent memory addresses. A few months ago we observed…



