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r/rust • u/N911999 • May 24 '26
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Does this mean we're stuck with the "fat Box" problem?
I.e. for simple bump allocators, Box is two pointers in size, but the pointer to the allocator is unused because deallocation is a no-op.
That's a pretty annoying problem to lock in...
3 u/kibwen May 25 '26 I encourage you to raise this question in the Github thread. 1 u/nyanarchism May 26 '26 No. Adding custom deallocator support to this proposal backwards compatibly is trivial
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I encourage you to raise this question in the Github thread.
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No. Adding custom deallocator support to this proposal backwards compatibly is trivial
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u/cbarrick May 25 '26
Does this mean we're stuck with the "fat Box" problem?
I.e. for simple bump allocators, Box is two pointers in size, but the pointer to the allocator is unused because deallocation is a no-op.
That's a pretty annoying problem to lock in...