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The Rust Programming Language
book

The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 50m
English
No Starch Press
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16FEARLESS CONCURRENCY

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Handling concurrent programming safely and efficiently is another of Rust’s major goals. Concurrent programming, where different parts of a program execute independently, and parallel programming, where different parts of a program execute at the same time, are becoming increasingly important as more computers take advantage of their multiple processors. Historically, programming in these contexts has been difficult and error prone: Rust hopes to change that.

Initially, the Rust team thought that ensuring memory safety and preventing concurrency problems were two separate challenges to be solved with different methods. Over ...

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