Crate splitrc

Thread-Safe Split Reference Counts

splitrc provides a pair of reference counts that together manage the lifetime of an object. The object is notified when either half’s count reaches zero.

It is primarily aimed at implementing ownership of channel types, where the channel needs notification when one half is fully dropped.

The implementation stores two 32-bit counters in a shared 64-bit atomic. On 64-bit platforms, atomic increment and decrements are used. On 32-bit platforms, increments and decrements are a CAS loop.

Four billion references should be plenty. Exceeding that leads to a panic.

The pointers are arbitrarily named Tx and Rx to indicate their intended use by channels.

let (tx, rx) = splitrc::new(MyValue {});

Structs

• Rx
  The read half of a split reference count.
• Tx
  The write half of a split reference count.

Traits

• Notify
  Allows the reference-counted object to know when the last write reference or the last read reference is dropped.

Functions

• new
  Allocates a pointer holding data and returns a pair of references.