cgc

cgc is a copying garbage collector.

Advantages

• Fast.
• Usable in a real-time thread, because collection can occur in another thread.
• Works fine with Rust memory management.
• Thread safe (not yet)

Disadvantages

• Not yet thread safe,you must be sure that you do thread-safe things with GCValue. If you will allocate not thread-safe type and run GC in other thread it may break your code.

• You need define Trace trait for every type that you want to GC.

Why copying GC?

This kind of GC is very simple to implement and use and got good perfomance,and there are only one problem: memory usage may be twice as high compared to other algorithms.

How to use

Just add cgc to your crate dependencies:

[dependencies]
cgc = "*"

And then start coding:

use cgc::*;


pub struct Foo(GC<i32>);

impl Trace for Foo {
    fn trace(&self) {
        self.0.mark();
    }
}