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 Given the particular hashing scheme, it's best to be empirical about this. Note
 that estimating the FP rate will clear the Bloom filter.
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+### Goroutine safety
+
+In general, it not safe to access
+the same filter using different goroutines--they are
+unsynchronized for performance. Should you want to access
+a filter from more than one goroutine, you should
+provide synchronization. Typically this is done by using channels (in Go style; so there is only ever one owner),
+or by using `sync.Mutex` to serialize operations. Exceptionally, you may access the same filter from different
+goroutines if you never modify the content of the filter.