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Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by hi41 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:12AM (#20470643)
Could you please expand on this. When garbage collection works in applications and webservers that handle large number of requests, why wouldn't it work in OS kernel?
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Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by inlined on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:27AM (#20470816)
GC can create noticeable pauses in the whole windows UX because windows scales vertically in a machine not horizontally in a DC. And per another comment I made, if your OOM handler needs to JIT it can be catastrophic.
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Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by arcticbull on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:24AM (#20470794)
It introduces indeterminism into a system that strives to have as little as possible. You could of course, but you probably shouldn’t.
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