How Control Flow Guard Drastically Caused Windows 8.1 Address Space and Behavior Changes
Now, you may think that 16 TB to 256 TB is a meaningless change since no applications currently use even a fraction of that space, but the main benefit of this change are not the ability to allocate additional memory, but rather the increased entropy space available for Address Space Load Randomization (ASLR), especially given that Windows 8 introduced High Entropy ASLR (HEASLR), Top-down Randomization and Anonymous Memory Randomization.
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