I think by "memory access improvements" they are referring to the new zero cost memory abstractions (called Span and Memory) not to memory safety. This makes th

I think by "memory access improvements" they are referring to the new zero cost memory abstractions (called Span and Memory) not to memory safety. This makes the most sense in context because these abstractions were inspired by similar zero cost abstractions in rust. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt814808.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt814808.aspx https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.span-1?view=netstandard-2.1 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.span-1?vi...