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"safe" means more than just memory safety.

Free from deadlocks, for one thing; who cares if no memory is misused if the show locks up.

Also, free from problems like thread A only traversing half the list because B removed a node in the middle which derailed A into a null pointer that looked like the list terminator (Even though no memory was misused.)




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