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Zero-Copy Pages in Rust: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lifetimes

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-16 Cached

A technical deep-dive into implementing zero-copy page handling in Rust for a database engine, exploring how Rust's lifetime system enables safe zero-copy semantics between the buffer pool and upper database layers while using Direct I/O to bypass the OS page cache.

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