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thing about looking at threading code

2025-08-13 03:15:02.91589+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The thing about looking at threading code is ... the author of this particular code managed a long and fruitful career at a large important company, and I generally respect them, but holy shit you don't just willy nilly cross-thread access data without mutexes and hope it works. Even if it does.

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