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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by cgh on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:59PM (#22240259)
Ehcache has an efficient off-heap store: https://github.com/Terracotta-OSS/offheap-store/

Doesn't Go have something like this available? It's an obvious thing for garbage-collected languages to have.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by mappu on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:27PM (#22242286)
You can usually resort to `import C` and using `C.malloc` to get an unsafe.Pointer.
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