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		skitter on July 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I have written a JVM in Rust Funnily enough I did the same in an early wip version of my toy JVM. Ended up using unsafe to use 'static references internally but only hand out wrappers that include a reference to the JVM. This also ensures that objects/classes/… from one JVM can't be used in another one.

MuffinFlavored on July 23, 2023 [–]

Could you not pass around Mutex<T> performantly?

skitter on July 24, 2023 | [–]

I'm not sure what you mean? Mutability wasn't the issue, lifetimes was. It already implemented interior mutability according to Java's rules.

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