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xuhu on Sept 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”

Afl-fuzz runs a program until main() and then forks it repeatedly. An empty main() can be called at least 10000 times per second this way.

xxpor on Sept 10, 2021 [–]

With AFL++ you can even determine exactly where the fork happens:

https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/blob/stable/instr...

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