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The execution of a program unfolds over some interval of time. The lifetime of every temporary resource (e.g., variable or object) is the time span between that resource’s “creation” and “destruction”. This lifetime is wholly contained within the typically-longer lifetime of the program. The goal of this post is to explore how versatile lifetime analysis has increasingly become in managing memory efficiently, safely and with better performance. By the end of this post, we will explore exciting new ways to apply lifetime analysis, beyond their current support in Rust.