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For example, in Rust, it will stop you from accessing the value protected by a Mutex after the lock is freed, and do so at compile time, even through function calls, pointers hidden in data structures, etc.

Another example: I can take a value and mutate it locally, then pass it immutably to a number of threads which use it to compute some results, and once they are all complete, I can mutate the data structure again. If I try to write mutation code before all the threads are re-joined, the compiler will tell me that I can't mutate while there are outstanding immutable borrows. At compile time, at no runtime overhead or locking.



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