The answer to 90% of questions about #rustlang is "Because it allows memory safety with zero overhead". (i.e. no GC.)
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@true_droid@mraleph@psnively For example, render trees in Servo. The lifetimes are so complex I RC'd them; the overhead isn't noticeable.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@pcwalton@true_droid@psnively when you say "overhead isn't noticeable" you mean you removed RC put GC in and compared perf?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@mraleph @true_droid @psnively Because of Rust borrowing (which is zero cost) we rarely ever touch the ref counts.
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