Prime sieve language race

ag0aep6g anonymous at example.com
Thu Jul 15 15:13:44 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 15 July 2021 at 13:16:01 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
> Yes that is the sensible thing to do. But I am not sure that is 
> the right thing. I am afraid that it will lead to the 
> conclusion that everything needs to be shared, because who is 
> going to stop someone from taking your struct/class/function, 
> moving it over to another thread and then complain it corrupts 
> memory while it was advertised as having a @safe interface?

If you share an object between threads, it must be typed as 
`shared`. Then someone can only call those methods that are also 
marked `shared`. Those methods are thread-safe. If someone casts 
`shared` away, it's on them to ensure thread-safety.


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