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		cesarb on Oct 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity Fun fact: what you did is a hand implementation of Rust's "drop flag" (https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/drop-flags.html).

Mouse47 on Oct 30, 2017 [–]

That's pretty cool - it never occurred to me that determining drops required anything other than static analysis. Nice that it doesn't affect the layout of the types, either...which I'm guessing is why they added:

>The drop flags are tracked on the stack and no longer stashed in types that implement drop.

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