I don't see what you mean. Borrowed pointers (and `AsRef`) work fine in Rust. In fact, Rust's borrowing model provides some perf gains easily where it would be

I don't see what you mean. Borrowed pointers (and `AsRef`) work fine in Rust. In fact, Rust's borrowing model provides some perf gains easily where it would be hard to do so in C++ (http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/03/where-rust-really-shines/ http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/03/where-rust-real...)