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Yes, enhanced security is pretty much the entire pitch of Rust. There wouldn't be any reason for it to result in performance enhancements, though.
There are theoretical performance improvements possible by compiler optimizations if the guarantees Rust provides are met. However, the kernel relies on a lot of
unsafecode to interoperate with C so I don't expect that to actually happen, because all of the safety guarantees go out of the window the moment you use that keyword.Not all guarantees are gone, even with unsafe