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by DasIch 3908 days ago
How about lexical memory management as a nod to dynamic vs. lexical scoping?
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steveklabnik 3908 days ago
That might work for now, but something we're working on for the future is making borrows non-lexical, so....
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kibwen 3908 days ago
Borrows may be non-lexical in the future, but deallocation via ownership will always be at the end of a lexical scope. Not only would eager deallocation be bad for performance, it's also a backcompat hazard at this point.
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