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Re:Removal of Unsafe in Java 9 – A disaster in the making by trb8 on Monday July 13, 2015 @12:33PM (#9879159)
Yes. Also there are many "safe" operations on "unsafe". Such as memory fences.
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Re:Removal of Unsafe in Java 9 – A disaster in the making by vardump on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:51PM (#9882195)
Multithreading is somewhat unsafe in general. And so is ability to do most I/O, you might overwhelm the system.
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Re:Removal of Unsafe in Java 9 – A disaster in the making by trb8 on Monday July 13, 2015 @10:59PM (#9882609)
Sure. Unsafe in terms of program correctness. By that measure, new Thread() is unsafe.

But that's not a reasonable definition of "unsafe". This could crash the JVM is a reasonable definition. And fences and ordered instructions cannot.

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