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What is thread safety anyway?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/13

A nice article [Archive.is] What is thread safety anyway? with a kind reference to the Deadlock Empire translation from C# to Delphi that I made.

In any language, multi-threading is hard, so I really love the quote below:

[WayBack] Multithreading can be hard to do right. The most common point of failure is assuming some code is thread safe when it actually is not... – Dalija Prasnikar – Google+

It reminded me of an old one:

A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll solve it with threads!”. has Now problems. two he

–jeroen

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