Crate genref

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Generational counting

This crate implements Vale’s generational reference counting memory management. Intended as an alternative to Rc with slightly different semantics.

Advantages over Rc:

Sharing references are Copy and therefore extremely cheap
RAII semantics

Disadvantages:

Only one owned reference, requiring management
Dereferencing returns Option
Not Deref

The locking system is non-granular for ease of implementation (and possibly speed.)

Structs

Non-exclusive lock (ZST)

Strong reference

Weak reference

Exclusive lock (ZST)

Enums

Functions