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Comment author: asr 16 April 2012 01:59:41AM 4 points [-]

This isn't really possible in many cases. Many programs are resource-constrained. And the heap, IO resources, etc, are shared state. We don't have good ways of abstracting that away. Likewise, synchronization is still a giant can of worms.