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You mean the positive impact of consuming statins. Consuming statins coincides with lower LDL so I can imagine people conflating the two variables. I'm sure taking statins also has…

Yes, functions can return non-owning references. However, those references do not "borrow" their target, in the sense that they lock others out. That is the Rust model, and OP does…

Hardware-based instruction reordering always preserves the behaviour of the original program. (Assuming the original program is valid.) For example, an Intel CPU won't reorder `x +…

Yep, that's an accurate summary! The model still features a form of "borrowing", it just happens at the granularity of groups. I wrote a more detailed answer here: https://news.yco…

The "Group Borrowing" concept that we're discussing still imposes aliasing restrictions to prevent unsynchronized concurrent access, and also to prevent "unplanned" aliasing. For e…

Hi there, I am the Nick whose design we're discussing. You raise some valid points: the blog post enumerates some limitations with Rust's model, but my design (as written) only res…

Do you remember what language that was? Or at least, how I'd find it? I'd be interested in checking it out.

> building a tree in Rust will do a lot of reference counting This isn't true in most cases. If every subtree is only referenced by its (unique) parent, then you can use a standard…

The multidimensional version definitely looks exciting! Do you have any benchmarks for it yet? And will you be publishing a paper on it?