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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by hrjet on Friday January 10, 2014 @10:12PM (#7041339)
> I don't understand this. If you write in a safe language, the compiler rules out the memory safety bugs, regardless of the problem.

For performance sensitive code, you sometimes need to deliberately step out of the strongholds of the compiler.

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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by dbaupp on Friday January 10, 2014 @10:28PM (#7041399)
Rust allows this via `unsafe` blocks, which essentially have C semantics (and allow the use of inline assembly too).
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