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> if you tell me there are no concurrency gotchas for this then I’ll tell you that you have a single threaded interpreter or you’re lying

You are making a big assumption. Neither common lisp nor smalltalk specify the semantics of concurrent programs, but it is certainly possible to implement such a feature without, as you say, concurrency gotchas. Perhaps a better example is concurrently compacting gcs for java.




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