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Re:Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code by stephencanon on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:03PM (#43776103)
Indeed. Exhaustively testing a 64b input space requires about 600 machine years for each nanosecond that the function under test takes to run. So, _very_ short-running critical functions are testable on a cluster, but not efficiently testable, and if a function is simple enough to be testable, then it's usually easier to prove that it's correct instead.

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