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interior-mutability
- May 12, 2026 Interior Mutability and the Runtime Borrow Flag How a language that checks aliasing at compile time permits mutation through a shared reference, what the runtime flag costs, and how it fails at runtime instead of at compile time. programming languages
- Sep 14, 2024 Aliasing Rules for References and the Role of UnsafeCell A shared reference is a promise of immutability that the optimiser acts on, and UnsafeCell is the single opt-out that makes interior mutability representable without lying to the compiler. systems programming