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Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by w10-1 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:49PM (#45840887)
> Memory protection no nonexsistant

Exclusivity is guaranteed by the compiler, and Apple has integrated tagged pointers on arm while Linux/x86 is still thinking about it.

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Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by worik on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:14PM (#45842875)
Righto. "Non-existent" is going too far.

I played around with their threads and found it was trivial to corrupt memory and crash.

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