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celeritascelery
812 days ago
That is just using a RefCell under the hood[1] so it is effectively the same trade-offs as the RefCell example from the article.
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https://docs.rs/gc/0.5.0/src/gc/lib.rs.html#495-498
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rendaw
812 days ago
It doesn't require you to differentiate weak and strong references, so there's no risk of memory leaks due incorrect choice in Gc, unlike Rc IIUC.
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paholg
812 days ago
Note: the two of you are linking to different crates. Samsara provides a Gc type, but it is not the gc crate.
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celeritascelery
811 days ago
It looks like you intended to say that on the sibling comment.
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paholg
811 days ago
Yep! Sorry.
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