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0 pointsadrianN5y ago0 comments

I doubt that you'll write a large Rust program without relying on refcounting at least for some of your objects. Refcounting is not fundamentally different than a GC.

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zozbot2345y ago

Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection (taken broadly), but it's quite different from tracing GC.

jashmatthews5y ago

Naive use of RC doesn't look like tracing much but as soon as you need cycle-aware RC like the CactusRef the algo looks a lot like tracing GC https://github.com/artichoke/cactusref#cycle-detection

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zozbot2345y ago

Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection (taken broadly), but it's quite different from tracing GC.

jashmatthews5y ago

Naive use of RC doesn't look like tracing much but as soon as you need cycle-aware RC like the CactusRef the algo looks a lot like tracing GC https://github.com/artichoke/cactusref#cycle-detection

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