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No its relative to the total amount of bugs.



In the context I was replying to, it's not. My response is to the claim that writing code in assembly has "few" bugs.


No, it's pretty clear from the full context of the comment you are replying to that it is expressing a relative measure[1]:

> Unsafe is not a problem in my experience. The same way a kernel might have some part written in asm (for freebsd it's like 1% I believe) your rust code will have 1% of Unsafe code. Might be more depending on what you are doing. However the same way few bugs happen in the asm code of a kernel, your unsafe will not have many bugs.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23510862


Right, comparatively.




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