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by kibwen 3687 days ago

  > Try using Go or Rust (love both, x2 for Go) to allocate 
  > say a hundred GB of memory for some huge/fast in-memory 
  > data processing.
Why would this be a problem in Rust? It literally doesn't impose any overhead on memory consumption, at least not any that C doesn't (e.g. padding). Dropbox has clusters of machines that manage exabytes of data whose core is written in Rust.