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		qayxc on June 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issu... I'm not sure you understand what "memory safety" means.

rurban on June 27, 2021 [–]

Ok, teach me about https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/82457 then. Unchecked alloca() calls have a pretty bad reputation with non-rust folks. But this is the preferred allocation scheme in Rust. I'm sure our understanding of memory safety is incompatible

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