Slices — Growth, Aliasing, and Memory Retention
Understand slice header semantics, growth behavior, aliasing hazards, and how sub-slicing retains memory.
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What this chapter teaches
A sub-slice is a cheap, independent view of part of an array.
a sub-slice shares the backing array — it retains the entire array from GC and can be silently corrupted by append through an alias.
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