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by wfunction 3242 days ago
> Also, I'm fairly certain synchronizing isn't an issue because there's nothing to synchronize on since the data structures are immutable. Am I understanding you correctly?

No -- I'm referring to synchronization on the heap itself (think new()/delete()). Multiple threads allocating memory need to synchronize in order to avoid trampling on each other. You can't just get rid of synchronization entirely.