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oconnor663 on Nov 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS

Maybe falcolas means that in the same way that C++ is more memory intensive than C for similar programs, because both C++ and Rust encourage a lot of Vecs/Strings that implicitly allocate on the heap?

pcwalton on Nov 3, 2016 [–]

Rust doesn't encourage that.

oconnor663 on Nov 4, 2016 | [–]

I suppose everything's a continuum with this stuff, but here's one library I ran into where I was a little disappointed to find a heap allocation: https://dnaq.github.io/sodiumoxide/sodiumoxide/crypto/secret...

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