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Minor modifications in concurrency section of the Rust book

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Nikhil Shagrithaya 2016-10-04 17:30:22 +00:00
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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Concurrency and parallelism are incredibly important topics in computer
science, and are also a hot topic in industry today. Computers are gaining more
and more cores, yet many programmers aren't prepared to fully utilize them.
Rust's memory safety features also apply to its concurrency story too. Even
Rust's memory safety features also apply to its concurrency story. Even
concurrent Rust programs must be memory safe, having no data races. Rust's type
system is up to the task, and gives you powerful ways to reason about
concurrent code at compile time.
@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ And... still gives us an error.
```
`Arc<T>` by default has immutable contents. It allows the _sharing_ of data
between threads, but shared mutable data is unsafe and when threads are
involved can cause data races!
between threads, but shared mutable data is unsafe—and when threads are
involved—can cause data races!
Usually when we wish to make something in an immutable position mutable, we use