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@wtfrank You can use a concept called "Split Borrows" or "Borrow Splitting":

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/borrow-splitting.html

Here is a playground that shows it:
https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=607b3986ab9c04a3b918e55c5a2d2163

It boils down to the following:
You can split your vector (or rather slice) into two mutable parts and mutate each half individually, by using `split_at_mut` on slices:

See docs in std:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.split_at_mut

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