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Re:Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make yo... by michaelcampbell on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:16AM (#23369056)
> I'd never imagine that compilers were actually doing what was stated -- sounds awful.

And how many millions of iterations have been done successfully in that "awful" system?

The very fact that you never imagined it I think says a lot.

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Re:Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make yo... by pdimitar on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:20AM (#23369079)
Well, I have been taught to take good manual care of all used resources. It is kind of a cognitive shock when you see all your training hand-waved away with "let the OS handle my mess of allocated objects that I'll never call `free` on". It's kind of disappointing on some level. :)

As I acknowledged in other comments of mine downthread, I understand that different situations require different tradeoffs. It's just that forgoing memory deallocation wasn't one of them in my head.

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