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Yes, I had a nasty bug in an initial version of glidesort where I (naively) assumed that I could create a temporary copy of an element by doing a memcpy and call the comparison function on this temporary copy a bunch of times before throwing it away, since I assumed the comparison function would not mutate the copy. Unfortunately interior mutability means this would lead to potential double drops, and it was just not sound.


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