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Written by yugaego 🌍 on 2024-09-14 at 09:08

[#]rustlang #garbage_collector

... Rust's ownership system is a garbage collector, one that automatically calculates lifetime expiration based on lexical scope during compilation rather than at runtime based on ref-counts or root-traceability. What you call statically managed memory, I call lexical garbage collection.

Usually I dub GC as "automatic dynamic memory management", C as "manual static memory management", and Rust as "automatic static memory management.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/6sq6nv/comment/dlerbd5/

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