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Re:Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look by slimsag on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:27PM (#9221169)
To be specific, the ones _that occur_ at run-time. It's not a "will maybe kinda sorta detect data race conditions" situation.
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Re:Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look by azth on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:54PM (#9221377)
Ah, fair enough! I thought it was a heuristic one. What sort of performance impact does it have?
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Re:Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look by kibwen on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:50PM (#9222801)
See https://golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html

  > The cost of race detection varies by program, but for a 
  > typical program, memory usage may increase by 5-10x and 
  > execution time by 2-20x.
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