zesterer/broom

An ergonomic tracing garbage collector that supports mark 'n sweep garbage collection

pancake

A personal C++ utility library for a variety of uses

What does it do?

pancake includes many pieces of boilerplate code that are common throughout my software including:

Why the name 'pancake'?

I don't know. I searched "random words" online and 'pancake' was the first thing I saw. I'm not very inventive when it comes to names.

broom's Issues

Concurrent GC

Hey great project

Do you have any plans to support a concurrent GC?
I think this was attempted in rust-gc, but they gave up :/

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/09/01/designing-a-gc-in-rust/#concurrency
Manishearth/rust-gc#6

For context, i maintain https://github.com/jasonwilliams/boa which is a user of rust-gc, concurrent GC is something we may wish for in future.

docs and examples

Can you document the differences between the types Rooted and Handle?
They seem to be very similar. Maybe, also some examples of the 2 different usecases they satisfy.
I have a stack VM and when i allocate a new object, i do insert on the heap and it gives back a Rooted<T>.
But on the example, you are using Handle in the Object enum. Should i do rooted.into_handle()?
It is unclear.
It looks like, the Handle will not keep the object alive.

[performance] hashmap

Have you tried to use a btreemap, instead of the hashmap?
It might be faster, for various reasons.

If not, i think https://crates.io/crates/rustc-hash is faster than Ahash.