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Smart Pointers

Smart Pointers are references to data, so you can use it, without taking ownership of this data. But before talking about Smart Pointers, lets take a look at normal references.

Normal references

You can create references to variables. This gives code the ability to work with those variables, without taking the ownership.

Reference

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Mutable Reference

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Smart Pointers

Smart Pointers are often required, because they give you additional functionalities, where normal references do not fit the problem.

Box

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Rc

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Arc

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RefCell

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Cell

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Mutex

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RwLock

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Cow

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Weak

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Pin

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