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Warning: This post may contain opinions. You have been warned.
-## When are optimizations legal?
+## When are Optimizations Legal?
Currently, we have a pretty good understanding of what the intended behavior of *safe* Rust is.
That is, there is general agreement (modulo some [bugs](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27868)) about the order in which operations are to be performed, and about what each individual operation does.
Now, it turns out that it is often really hard to obtain precise aliasing information.
This could be the end of the game: No alias information, no way to verify our assumptions, no optimizations.
-## Shifting responsibility
+## Shifting Responsibility
-However, it turns out that compilers writers consider these optimizations important enough that they came up with an alternative solution:
+However, it turns out that compiler writers consider these optimizations important enough that they came up with an alternative solution:
Instead of having the compiler verify such assumptions, they declared the programmer responsible.
For example, the C standard says that memory accesses have to happen with the right "effective type": If data was stored with a `float` pointer, it must not be read with an `int` pointer.
Coming up next on this channel: During my [internship]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2017-05-23-internship-starting %}), I am working on such a specification.
My ideas are concrete enough now that I can write down a draft, which I will share with the world to see what the world thinks about it.
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+**Uodate:** [Writing down has happened]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2017-07-17-types-as-contracts %}).