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Rust may or may not help you write synchronization primitives safely, but it for sure helps you use synchronization primitives without having to worry about mem
by ben0x539 6y ago
Rust may or may not help you write synchronization primitives safely, but it for sure helps you use synchronization primitives without having to worry about memory safety. If you aren't parallelizing particularly subtle shenanigans, that's plenty for fearlessness.
- mratsim 6y agoComing up with a new threadsafe queue design is worthy of a paper even though it's just enqueueing and dequeueing items. Memory safety is just a small part and is a much easier problem than ensuring the absence of race conditions.