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> On the other hand, the Rust code is guaranteed at compile time to be free from buffer overruns

No it's not. In this line:

    .zip(&buffer[i - 12..i])

you can just put any indices and it will compile.

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But it will not read outside of the buffer. It will panic at runtime instead. That's not a buffer overrun.

It's still an error discovered at runtime. It's one that smacks you in the face instead of silently doing the wrong thing, but it's still found at runtime. I really prefer my errors to be found at compile time, but that's often harder to do...

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