Mercury (handmademercury)

Race #487

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Official speed 141.97 wpm (40.57 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 10, 2020 6:51:32pm UTC
Race Finish June 10, 2020 6:52:13pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Accuracy 100.0%
Points 189.30
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All programs have to manage the way they use a computer's memory while running. Some languages have garbage collection that constantly looks for no longer used memory as the program runs; in other languages, the programmer must explicitly allocate and free the memory. Rust uses a third approach: memory is managed through a system of ownership with a set of rules that the compiler checks at compile time. None of the ownership features slow down your program while it's running.