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Comment by pornel

7 hours ago

I suspect fearless concurrency is another motivating factor. Better perf can be achieved by squeezing more parallelism, but without borrow checking it's difficult to do fine-grained parallelism correctly.

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wpollock  30 minutes ago

Is "fearless concurrency" a technical term? I thought it was just the catchy name of a chapter of the Rust book.

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