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/// Differs from [`Copy`] in that [`Copy`] is implicit and an inexpensive bit-wise copy, while
/// `Clone` is always explicit and may or may not be expensive. In order to enforce
/// these characteristics, Rust does not allow you to reimplement [`Copy`], but you
/// may reimplement `Clone` and run arbitrary code.
/// `Clone` is always explicit and may or may not be expensive. [`Copy`] has no methods, so you
/// cannot change its behavior, but when implementing `Clone`, the `clone` method you provide
/// may run arbitrary code.
///
/// Since `Clone` is more general than [`Copy`], you can automatically make anything
/// [`Copy`] be `Clone` as well.
/// Since `Clone` is more general than [`Copy`], and is its supertrait, anything [`Copy`] is
/// `Clone` as well.
///
/// ## Derivable
///
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