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Avoiding large stack frames by passing &mut self instead of self

1 · Users Rust Lang · July 26, 2026, 7:19 p.m.

Rust Programming Performance Optimization Memory Management software development

Summary

The blog post discusses the practice of avoiding large stack frames in Rust programming by utilizing `&mut self` instead of `self`, which could lead to performance optimization and better memory management in certain scenarios.

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