Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

Éric Araujo wrote:
> 
> Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:
> 
> Adjectives require hyphens but nouns do not.  “thread-safety” should be 
> reverted to “thread safety”.  I haven’t searched for a grammar reference, but 
> you can take Wikipedia as an example: “Thread safety is a computer 
> programming concept applicable in the context of multi-threaded programs. A 
> piece of code is thread-safe if it functions correctly during simultaneous 
> execution by multiple threads.”

Are you sure ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns

This appears to be more a question of personal style than a
grammar rule.

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