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Re: immutable BigInteger

Eduard de Jong wrote:

However, one key point i tried to make, which i'm not sure has come
across as clear as i wished, is that there is no choice in being
thread safe or not:

A program that is not thread safe is an INCORRECT program. Whatever
speed&memory performance gain it has it still is a broken program, it
CAN FAIL AT ANY TIME.

This statement is certainly true, however it does not follow that *any* program making use of a class (or other piece of software) that is not MT-safe becomes MT-safe. How the non-safe software is used is important. Serializing access to non-safe code through a single thread is a valid technique for creating MT-safe software, and is commonly used.
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