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Re:Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig by pjmlp on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:24PM (#29581774)
I see, then I misunderstood whatever was related to Drop and not being fully stable.

Yeah stack overflow can also be an issue on other RAII approaches.

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Re:Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig by steveklabnik on Thursday December 16, 2021 @07:18PM (#29585946)
Hm yeah, on the "not fully stable" angle, there's also some talk about "async drop," which doesn't exist just yet, and would be useful in async contexts. Maybe that's what it was.
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