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Generational reference counting in Rust

An implementation of Vale's generational reference counting memory management model.


lib.rs:

Generational counting

This crate implements Vale's generational reference counting memory management. Intended as an alternative to Rc with slightly different semantics.

Advantages over Rc:

  • Sharing references are Copy and therefore extremely cheap
  • RAII semantics

Disadvantages:

  • Only one owned reference, requiring management
  • Dereferencing returns Option
  • Not Deref

The locking system is non-granular for ease of implementation (and possibly speed.)

Dependencies

~0–5.5MB