If you only want to read the C structs in the file and not modify them, you may be able to create a read-only memory map to the file in order to obtain a reference to the bytes and avoid using alloc/dealloc that way (at the cost of a memmap call). This has another additional benefit: it is zero-copy, so performance will be better for bigger files.
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