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Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier
Abstract Rust is a non-Garbage Collected (GCed) language, but the lack of GC makes expressing data-structures that require shared ownership awkward, inefficient, or both. In this paper we explore a new design for, and implementation of, GC in Rust, called Alloy . Unlike previous approaches to GC in Rust, Alloy allows…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2025 | Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier by ltratt | 144 | 180 |
