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by nemothekid 880 days ago
That might be true of C++, but I don't think its true in Rust. Furthermore, I don't think the performance concern is as dire as you believe - both Scylla and Redpanda, two high performance C++ databases both use shared_ptr with their async framework Seastar.
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> That might be true of C++, but I don't think its true in Rust

And which was exactly my point.

> both Scylla and Redpanda, two high performance C++ databases both use shared_ptr

Such argument doesn't make sense since you will find usage of shared-ptrs in probably more or less every high performance C++ codebase out there. The secrete sauce is to know _where_ and _when_ to use it. I'm not against it but I'm definitely not in favor of language forcing me to user it when I don't need it.