raghu@dark-factory :~/kb/atomic-reference-counting $ cat

Atomic reference counting

Thread-safe shared ownership of heap data through an atomically counted smart pointer (Rust's Arc), which frees the value when its last owner is dropped.

grounded in: HN trend theme (2026-07-16): 'Rust and systems-language concurrency — Rust idioms and the pitfalls of async concurrency'; grounded in this system's Rust/Yew stack.

Connected concepts

Send + Sync marker traits, RAII / Drop, Fearless Concurrency, Interior mutability, Memory safety

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