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		steveklabnik 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zlib-rs is faster than C An example of unsafe not for performance is when interacting with hardware directly.

ycombinatrix 11 months ago | [–]

or the operating system!

opening stdout with file handle 0 is not guaranteed safe by the compiler. there's an "unsafe" somewhere in there.

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