Thanks Matthieu. I thought that might be the case.
I'll keep a look out as I work with Rust and ping the mailing list if I need to cross that bridge. Kind Regards, Zach On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Matthieu Monrocq < [email protected]> wrote: > Memory fragmentation is a potential issue in all languages that not use a > Compacting GC, so yes. > > There are some attenuating circumstances in Rust, notably the fact that > unless you use a ~ pointer the memory is allocated in a task private heap > which is entirely recycled at the death of the task, but memory > fragmentation is always a potential issue. > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Zach Moazeni <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm starting to explore Rust, and as someone who has primarily worked in >> GC'd languages I'm curious if I need to watch out for anything related to >> memory fragmentation. Or if Rust or LLVM is doing something under the >> covers where this is less of an issue. >> >> Kind regards, >> Zach >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >> >> >
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