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Comment by thayne

7 months ago

> nobody relies on function runtime

Maybe not intentionally.

But there have been several times where I've seen bugs where two tasks are done concurrently, but task A always takes longer than task B, then someone makes A faster, and that exposes some race condition or deadlock that only occurs if A completes before B.

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