Zero-Copy Deserialization in Rust: Crushing Latency with Serde and rkyv
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In the world of high-performance systems engineering, memory is the new disk. It’s 2025, and while our CPUs have become insanely fast, the cost of moving data around—allocating generic heap memory, copying bytes, and garbage collection (or in Rust’s case, dropping complex ownership trees)—remains the primary bottleneck for throughput.