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Comment by SkiFire13

> One of the basic ideas behind Rust's memory safety story is that eliminating race conditions

Rust does not prevent race conditions. You're getting confused with data races.

However GC's solution to data races (make every load/store act as very relaxed atomic instructions) makes race conditions much easier to write.

parent SkiFire13 3 months ago

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