Bytes vs & [u8] difference

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As of title i am struggling to understand this difference. Aren't them byte arrays?

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Do you mean Bytes from the bytes crate? To quote the docs:

Bytes is an efficient container for storing and operating on contiguous slices of memory. It is intended for use primarily in networking code, but could have applications elsewhere as well.

Bytes values facilitate zero-copy network programming by allowing multiple Bytes objects to point to the same underlying memory. This is managed by using a reference count to track when the memory is no longer needed and can be freed.

On the other hand&[u8] is not an owned value, but rather borrowed.

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