Blog Post: Lifetime Parameters in Rust

[shelby3]

@troplin

In C++ projects that make extensive use of reference counting, ownership is often not clear anymore. That means you have to RC everything, because maybe it is needed somewhere and allocating on the stack could lead to nasty stack corruptions.

Afaics, we've established that refcounting is worse in every way:

@shelby3

And reference counting memory management isn't faster than GC:

Here are the numbers I got on my dual proc PIII-600:
ref_gc: 531ms
ref_rm: 3563ms
ref_rs: 844ms

And reference counting won't free the dangling circular references that GC will.