Crate servo_arc

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Fork of Arc for Servo. This has the following advantages over std::sync::Arc:

  • We don’t waste storage on the weak reference count.
  • We don’t do extra RMU operations to handle the possibility of weak references.
  • We can experiment with arena allocation (todo).
  • We can add methods to support our custom use cases 1.
  • We have support for dynamically-sized types (see from_header_and_iter).
  • We have support for thin arcs to unsized types (see ThinArc).
  • We have support for references to static data, which don’t do any refcounting.

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  • Arc
    An atomically reference counted shared pointer
  • ArcBorrow
    A “borrowed Arc”. This is a pointer to a T that is known to have been allocated within an Arc.
  • ArcUnion
    A tagged union that can represent Arc<A> or Arc<B> while only consuming a single word. The type is also NonNull, and thus can be stored in an Option without increasing size.
  • HeaderSlice
    Structure to allow Arc-managing some fixed-sized data and a variably-sized slice in a single allocation.
  • HeaderWithLength
    Header data with an inline length. Consumers that use HeaderWithLength as the Header type in HeaderSlice can take advantage of ThinArc.
  • ThinArc
    A “thin” Arc containing dynamically sized data
  • UniqueArc
    An Arc that is known to be uniquely owned

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