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Rust Memory Management Explained


Rust's ownership and borrowing mechanisms guarantee memory safety at runtime. Here's how to use them in your programs.

But the Rust programming language implements these behaviors in its own way, with significant implications for how memory management works. The Rc/ Arc objects follow the same rules as Box es: they’re bound by Rust’s larger dictates around lifetimes and borrowing. Even reference counted types have to obey Rust’s rules for object lifetimes, scoping, and ownership—all of which must be confirmed at compile time.

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