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		yangl1996 on March 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust Ownership Rules Rust compiler forbids multiple threads to access the same memory location not protected by a Mutex.

hexaga on March 2, 2020 [–]

That is, only when said memory location is accessed mutably. Immutable references are perfectly ok to follow concurrently.

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