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		Animats on Dec 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Four years with Rust The other way round. Sometimes you want to convert non-mutable references to non-mutable copies. This is almost always a win for int, float, etc., and usually a win for anything up to 8 bits on a modern processor.

uabstraction on Dec 22, 2016 [–]

I'm going to nitpick and suggest that you almost certainly meant 8 _bytes_.

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