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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was originally introduced to the idea by this RustConf 2018 keynote: https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html. It's rather dense though.

I did find this random article that outlines just the concept of generational indices pretty concisely: https://lucassardois.medium.com/generational-indices-guide-8e3c5f7fd594

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That same keynote is linked in the last paragraph! :) The slotmap crate is also one option for generational indexes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, you're right! Somehow I missed that, good catch.