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Re:Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux schedu... by morelisp on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @03:14PM (#21930268)
I don't program Rust regularly or track its status in that much detail, so thanks for the correction.

Do you have some links about the known soundness issues? I was under the impression that although it hadn't yet been proven it was still a medium-term goal, and any soundness bugs were considered fairly major.

(And yeah, "mathematical proof" is strong regardless since e.g. LLVM is also in there somewhere. But it captures the idea more closely than any comparison of "compile vs. runtime" or "static vs. dynamic" does.)

Re:Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux schedu... by steveklabnik on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @04:00PM (#21930599)
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao... is the list of soundness bugs. They are considered major, but they’re more compiler bugs than something broken in the language itself. They are taken seriously, but bugs will always happen. Some need upstream fixes, too, so that can take a while.