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Re:Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire on Friday May 16, 2025 @06:44AM (#44003773)
> NOTE: In this snippet we ignore the ABA problem

The article doesn't go into details but this is subtle way to mess up writing lock free data structures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem

Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:23AM (#36773981)
Can you point me at an example of this?