Reply to post: Re: F.U.D.

Any fool can write a language: It takes compilers to save the world

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Re: F.U.D.

I am just precisely describing the resulting programs. There exist use cases where automatic locking of multithreaded data would be expensive. Planetary simulation for example.

In such cases, the performance-critical core should (currently) be done in a C++ library. There is no silver bullet, indeed.

Deadlocks are also possible, as with almost any locking mechanism. That's orthogonal to memory safety.

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