I never meant to imply that you could use such tricks without considering the lifetimes of references. Manual memory management already requires being mindful o

I never meant to imply that you could use such tricks without considering the lifetimes of references. Manual memory management already requires being mindful of those though so it's nothing unique to the described situation. Yes Rust offers an advantage here, but it's the same one it offers everywhere else so it doesn't seem relevant to me. That being said, it seems like most cases where such an approach is worthwhile involve large nested data structures that involve lots of pointer chasing to traverse. All cases I've encountered so far were bulk stores that didn't involve actively interacting with external objects.