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		brink on March 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Speed of Rust vs. C The simplest (and often best) option is to use the Arc<Mutex<MyStruct>> pattern. The Arc is an async reference counter that allows multiple ownership. And the nested Mutex enforces only one mutable borrow at a time.

efficax on March 13, 2021 [–]

I think you mean that Arc is an atomic reference counter (it uses atomic cpu instructions to prevent race conditions when incrementing and decrementing the ref count)

brink on March 13, 2021 | [–]

Ah yes, sorry. I remember it in my head with "async", but you're right. :)

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