Module intern 

String interner that hands out compact Symbol handles.

Interner deduplicates owned String storage: every call to Interner::intern returns the same Symbol for the same input. Equality and hashing operate on the four-byte symbol rather than the underlying bytes, which is the win when the same identifier appears thousands of times across a workload.

Cost summary

• intern: O(log n) on a first sight; O(log n) on a repeated sight.
• resolve: O(1).
• len / is_empty: O(1).

The implementation uses an ordered map for the de-duplication index so that the crate stays no_std-compatible without pulling in hashbrown. Hash-backed lookup is planned for the 0.5 milestone.

Structs

Interner

String interner. See the module-level docs.

Iter

Iterator over (Symbol, &str) pairs returned by Interner::iter.

Symbol

Compact handle returned by Interner::intern.