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		kibwen on April 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven () Other M... > And as it turns out, reference counting can be blended with immutable region borrowing to greatly reduce its cache misses and make it data-race safe, something no language has done yet. Rust prevents data races, so I'm not sure what this is referring to.

dullcrisp on April 25, 2024 | [–]

I think it’s saying that no language has blended reference counting with immutable region borrowing, not that no language is data-race safe.

pjmlp on April 25, 2024 | [–]

One kind of data races, in-process memory not shared with other processes.

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