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Broken Proofs and Broken Provers (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
14 points by RebelPotato 4 hours ago | 1 comment


The multithreading bug in Isabelle is fascinating from a systems design perspective: threads racing ahead assuming a stuck proof will succeed, creating false positives. That's exactly the kind of subtle concurrency issue that makes verification tools need... verification tools.