The benefit of "unsafe" blocks is that the surface area to audit is dramatically reduced, so that yes, if you want high performance pointer mangling and arithme

The benefit of "unsafe" blocks is that the surface area to audit is dramatically reduced, so that yes, if you want high performance pointer mangling and arithmetic, you can do it, but your code will require more attention. In C/C++, undefined behavior and unsafe operations abound and it is nigh impossible to isolate what is "important" to review from a security standpoint.