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Welcome to a new chapter on some of Rust's most powerful memory management features. We'll begin our exploration of smart pointers with the most straightforward one: Box. A Box is a smart pointer that allows you to store data on the heap instead of the stack. It's a fundamental tool for managing memory and enabling certain data structures in Rust.

Following our introduction to What is Ownership?, this article dives deeper into a crucial aspect of memory management that underpins the entire ownership system: the Stack and the Heap. Understanding how Rust organizes memory is essential for writing efficient, high-performance code and for truly grasping why ownership works the way it does.