Not quite, the difference here is that instead of storing live objects on the heap you would need to serialize them into a byte slice. You then hand that to the

Not quite, the difference here is that instead of storing live objects on the heap you would need to serialize them into a byte slice. You then hand that to the cache library and it would find a place to copy those bytes and store them on your behalf. This means your object now just becomes data belonging to the cache and sits somewhere on the libraries internal data-structure.