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Re:Consider the Nimrod Programming Language by TylerE on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @09:48PM (#7389651)
Um, what are you talking about.

There's a separate heap per thread and data sharing among threads ins't allowed. It's perfectly thread safe.

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Re:Consider the Nimrod Programming Language by pcwalton on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @11:34PM (#7389919)
The language doesn't enforce that GC'd pointers don't pass between threads. The GC can silently free stuff you didn't want freed if you pass objects between threads. This is not a property of a thread-safe GC.
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Re:Consider the Nimrod Programming Language by TylerE on Thursday March 13, 2014 @10:07AM (#7391836)
Yes, but in practice practically everything in Nimrod is a value, not a ref, so GC'd pointers are an extremely rare duck.
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