Updates Clone
docs for Copy
comparison.
#86200
Merged
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Quite a few people (myself included) have come under the impression that the difference between
Copy
andClone
is thatCopy
is cheap andClone
is expensive, where the actual difference is thatCopy
constrains the type to bit-wise copying, andClone
allows for more expensive operations. The source of this misconception is in theClone
docs, where the following line is in the description:The
Clone
documentation page also comes up before theCopy
page on google when searching for "the difference betweenClone
andCopy
".This PR updates the documentation to clarify that "extremely inexpensive" means an "inexpensive bit-wise copy" to hopefully prevent future rust users from falling into this misunderstanding.