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dralley on June 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Memory safety without borrow checking, reference c...

That it's often similar in C/C++, except instead of the borrow checker being in the way it's fear of memory management or concurrency bugs.

MichaelMoser123 on June 17, 2023 [–]

still, in c++ you would pass an object by reference to a function call (if that object is not expected to be of very small in size).

However in Rust you do have a strong incentive to do otherwise.

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