[eloff]

Now make it a global thread safe hash map where the keys are references into a mutable memory map that can move it's address (be remapped.) That's currently where rust is making my life miserable today. In C++ this is quite straightforward, albiet full of footguns.

Every time I need a static mutable thread safe map in rust for a cache or registry or some such thing, I groan.

I have a love hate relationship with rust. I love a lot of things about it, but sometimes I get so fed up with the borrow checker I drop into unsafe and just write the problem off as something better not done safely.

[Ankhers]

Maybe I am misunderstanding your needs, but could you not just use a RwLock[0]? For being global you will need to use the lazy_static[1] crate. Admittedly, I have not tried doing this directly though.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.RwLock.html [1] https://crates.io/crates/lazy_static

[eloff]

That's part of the solution I'm working towards.

I'm using 'static references for the map keys, but they're not really 'static, so I use unsafe transmute to create them and I rebuild the map when the memory map changes to a different address.