Crate basedrop

Memory-management tools for real-time audio and other latency-critical scenarios.

• Owned and Shared are smart pointers analogous to Box and Arc which add their contents to a queue for deferred collection when dropped.
• Collector is used to process the drop queue.
• Node provides a lower-level interface for implementing custom smart pointers or data structures.
• SharedCell implements a mutable memory location holding a Shared pointer that can be used by multiple readers and writers in a thread-safe manner.

Structs

• Collector
  A garbage collector for Owned and Shared allocations.
• Handle
  A handle to a Collector, used when allocating Owned and Shared values.
• Node
  An allocation that can be added to its associated Collector’s drop queue.
• Owned
  An owned smart pointer with deferred collection, analogous to Box.
• Shared
  A reference-counted smart pointer with deferred collection, analogous to Arc.
• SharedCell
  A thread-safe shared mutable memory location that holds a Shared<T>.