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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by int_19h on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:15PM (#22242205)
How do you know that they exist, if you're not scanning that memory?
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by zozbot234 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:29PM (#22242764)
The data structure code can take care of this by registering GC roots with the garbage collector (and de-registering them if an external reference changes). It's no different in principle than any other smart pointer.
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