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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:
New paper: Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier. There are lots of GCs for Rust: we tried pushing as far as we could in a new direction, particularly looking at what can be done about the headache that is finalizers.
Good news -- not only can a nice design be found, but some of Rust's properties mean we can solve classical GC finalization problems! https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/hughes%5Ftratt%5F%5Fgarbage%5Fcollection%5Ffor%5Frust%5Fthe%5Ffinalizer%5Ffrontier/
