Re:A Python Interpreter Written in Rust
by jlokier on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:08AM
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loeg says, "programs rely on this".
Guarantee or not, it constrains whether something is usable as a drop-in replacement interpreter, especially if people can't tell which programs will break, and doubly so if the breakage is a subtle data corruption race that doesn't show up in tests.
Guarantee or not, it constrains whether something is usable as a drop-in replacement interpreter, especially if people can't tell which programs will break, and doubly so if the breakage is a subtle data corruption race that doesn't show up in tests.