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Re:Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Seri... by nemothekid on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @10:47AM (#39118707)
That might be true of C++, but I don't think its true in Rust. Furthermore, I don't think the performance concern is as dire as you believe - both Scylla and Redpanda, two high performance C++ databases both use shared_ptr with their async framework Seastar.
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Re:Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Seri... by menaerus on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @10:56AM (#39118851)
> That might be true of C++, but I don't think its true in Rust

And which was exactly my point.

> both Scylla and Redpanda, two high performance C++ databases both use shared_ptr

Such argument doesn't make sense since you will find usage of shared-ptrs in probably more or less every high performance C++ codebase out there. The secrete sauce is to know _where_ and _when_ to use it. I'm not against it but I'm definitely not in favor of language forcing me to user it when I don't need it.

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