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Rust's borrow checker should make it impossible to reference an unlocked pointer in safe code. I suspect it should be possible to have a compacting heap as a li

• vlovich123 4y ago
  Yeah. I wonder if something like this might be interesting for a pure Rust program / what computing would look like if Rust were available back then (we now have a path dependency on modern memory allocation patterns that are unlikely to change where we rely on the allocator to do really heavy lifting). I wonder how expensive the extra handle indirection would be (I imagine modern CPUs should be an able to speculate through it without much difficulty).