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Re:Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make yo... by Avi-D-coder on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:32PM (#23366128)
Interestingly for the Rust GC I'm working both Drop and finalizers will be supported.

Do you happen to offer beat the programmer with a stick as a service?

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Re:Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make yo... by mcguire on Monday June 01, 2020 @02:26PM (#23381913)
Unfortunately, no, but you are going to need it.

I was fooling with a cycle-collected reference counter for Rust for a while, but eventually gave up because of the difficulty in handling finalizers.

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