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Re:Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in... by apatheticonion on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:02AM (#42909051)
Thanks! Is this also the case even Rust consumes a C library?
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Re:Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in... by atombender on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:50AM (#42909378)
No, my understanding is that Rust uses normal stacks, and it uses a classic threading model, so aside from async, calling C doesn't need to any runtime stuff.
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Re:Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in... by steveklabnik on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:52AM (#42909810)
That is correct, and was a major motivation for dropping green threads way back in 2014.
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