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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by gjajric2 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:37AM (#46216219)
But at least a lot of tasks in a kernel would require something else than reference counting, unless it can be guaranteed that the reference counting is optimized away or something, right?
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by astrange on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:36PM (#46222508)
There are some allocations where it doesn't make sense for them to have multiple owners (strong references) but I wouldn't say it makes sense to think about it as being optimized away or not.
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