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🌵 Cycle-Aware Reference Counting in Rust

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2019-11-16 · latest 2020-07-09

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  1. …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
    comment by jashmatthews · 2020-07-09 · in Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
  2. …which integrate better with their surrounding code than plain tracing GC. E.g. something like https://github.com/artichoke/cactusref which can collect cycles deterministically, and does not have to trace the whole heap to do so (which…
    comment by zozbot234 · 2020-01-22 · in Why Rust closures are somewhat hard
  3. …for Rust that function reasonably are still pretty experimental You can also use something like https://github.com/artichoke/cactusref - which provides an equivalent of Rc<T> with nearly-seamless, timely detection and collection of…
    comment by zozbot234 · 2019-11-16 · in GC Fun at Twitch