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Written by Dave Anderson on 2025-01-30 at 06:01

The fun thing about skimming the unsafe rust bugtracker is that, aside from wondering how any computer ever works at all, you pick up some fun compsci terms.

Today's term: demonic non-determinism, which describes a program that resolves all non-deterministic execution steps in favor of not halting. Contrast with angelic non-determinism, which given a choice always prefers to halt.

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