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Not when you need your own allocator. Anything that tries to manage memory w/o you knowing about it will be working against you.

• bonzini 2y ago
  Smart pointers are not really about managing memory, they're about managing lifetimes. Even things like the Rust RefCell are smart pointers.
  • crabbone 2y ago
    Rust lifetimes is a mechanism to manage memory.