A common misconception about Rust's `'static` lifetime is that it implies memory leaks. In reality, `'static` means a value is valid for the rest of the program, not that it must live in the binary or be leaked. It applies to reference lifetimes (like string literals stored in the binary), trait bounds (like closures passed to

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