anybytes 0.10.0

A small library abstracting over bytes owning types in an extensible way.
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**This Library is still pre-1.0.0 the API is therefore in heavy flux!**

A small library for conveniently working with immutables bytes from different sources, providing zero-copy slicing and cloning.

Access itself is extremely cheap via no-op conversion to a `&[u8]`.
 
The storage mechanism backing the bytes can be extended
and is implemented for a variety of sources already,
including other byte handling crates `Bytes`, mmap-ed files,
`String`s and `Zerocopy` types.

## Comparison

| Crate | Active | Extensible | mmap support | Zerocopy Integration | Pyo3 Integration | kani verified |
| ----- | ------ | ---------- | ------------ | -------------------- | ---------------- | -------- |
| anybytes | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🚧 |
| [bytes](https://crates.io/crates/bytes) | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| [ownedbytes](https://crates.io/crates/ownedbytes) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| [minibytes](https://crates.io/crates/sapling-minibytes) | ✅[^1] | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |

[^1]: Recently published again.

## Acknowledgements
This library started as a fork of the minibyte library in facebooks [sapling scm](https://github.com/facebook/sapling).