Re:Why Rust is a great choice for startups
by juped on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:17AM
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Calling malloc isn't even manual memory management to me, it's just calling malloc. Writing malloc (not that hard in general! but tricky to get exactly the allocator performance or security properties you want for your use case) is manual memory management.
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Re:Why Rust is a great choice for startups
by afdbcreid on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:10AM
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> In computer science, manual memory management refers to the usage of manual instructions by the programmer to identify and deallocate unused objects, or garbage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_memory_management
So, you can call it however you like, but calling `malloc()`/`free()` manually (emphasis on the `free()`, since allocation is explicit in most languages in form of `new` or something) is manual memory management, and this is how most programmers use this term.