Re:Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within t...
by chrisseaton on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:56AM
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> data races (with no false positives), which are never okay
This just isn’t true.
Here’s a concrete example - many JIT compilers use counters to work out when to compile a method. They allow data races in updates to the counters because performance is more important than correctness for them and the impact of a lost write is basically zero. It’s only a bug if you decide it’s a bug.
This just isn’t true.
Here’s a concrete example - many JIT compilers use counters to work out when to compile a method. They allow data races in updates to the counters because performance is more important than correctness for them and the impact of a lost write is basically zero. It’s only a bug if you decide it’s a bug.