On recent Rust compilers, it produces the same assembly as Vec::push, so there is no benefit in keeping the function around, besides that it avoids occasionally nerd-sniping people in trying to understand Rust's UB and how to write the function correctly.
On recent Rust compilers, it produces the same assembly as
Vec::push, so there is no benefit in keeping the function around, besides that it avoids occasionally nerd-sniping people in trying to understand Rust's UB and how to write the function correctly.