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Document thread safety

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Description

Currently, simdjson is very much thread safe. I think that this should appear in the doxygen documentation, and any concurrency issue should be documented (there are none that I know of).

There is talk by @jkeiser of introducing a state in the object and array element. If so, we should discuss thread safety in the documentation as clearly as possible.

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Research direction

Start by locating the Doxygen documentation and reviewing how thread safety and concurrency are currently described. Done means the documentation clearly states the thread-safety guarantee and records any known concurrency limitations, including implications of possible state in object and array elements.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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