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Nice to see work being done towards deadlock safe mutexes (crates.io)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A saw this on Mastodon, and found it interesting. Rust already prevents a lot of race conditions, but deadlocks when using a mutex is still possible (and I have actually had one myself, though I caught it during testing). So, it would be nice if it would be possible to catch these cases at compile time. Now, seems to be just a proof of concept, but it is always nice to see the direction people are going and what areas are explored.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I don't see how that can be used to make performant code though. I usually want to make my locked regions as small as possible to avoid how long other threads are blocked for.