No? It depends on your definition of inner loop I guess. If you're doing some sort of zero-copy IO, the time to clear the buffer might be non-trivial (not huge

No? It depends on your definition of inner loop I guess. If you're doing some sort of zero-copy IO, the time to clear the buffer might be non-trivial (not huge, but non-trivial). It's true that you need a large enough buffer that syscall/ffi overhead doesn't dominate, but that's not unrealistic. It's rare that we care about this, that's true, that's why generally rust has been fine with "just zero buffers". There are definitely domains that care though.