bitpack-vec

A dense bitpacked vector type for unnsigned integers.

use bitpack_vec::BitpackVec;
let mut bv = BitpackVec::new(5);  // 5-bit integers

for i in 0..12 {
    bv.push(i);
}

assert_eq!(bv.at(6), 6);
assert_eq!(bv.at(9), 9);

use deepsize::DeepSizeOf;
assert_eq!(bv.as_raw().len(), 1);  // underlying vector length is just 1 (60 bits)

// total in-memory size (not strictly specified by Rust):
assert_eq!(
    bv.deep_size_of(), 
    std::mem::size_of::<Vec<u64>>()  // size of the vector structure
    + std::mem::size_of::<usize>() // the length counter (separate from the Vec's)
    + std::mem::size_of::<u8>() // the bitwidth of the structure
    + 15 // padding
);

• O(1) random access to single elements
• O(1) pop
• O(1) set
• Amortized O(1) push (same as Rust Vec)
• Any bitlength from 1 to 63
• Serde serializable

This package does an "as you'd expect" bitpacking of integers, with no fancy SIMD or additional compression. Values are stored in a Vec<u64>, so no more than 63 bits should be wasted. Values can overlap u64 values.

Compared to other bitpacking packages for Rust:

• bitpacking uses SIMD compression to pack values into blocks, but entire blocks must be decompressed in order to access values. If you don't care about random access, bitpacking is probably what you want.
• vorbis_bitpack allows for streaming compression and decompression of packed integers, using the Vorbis format. No random access, but has streaming readers / writers.
• parquet implements a number of Apache-backed formats (feather, arrow, parquet), many of which support bitpacking and other types of compression.

License

This code is available under the terms of the GPL-3.0 (or later) license.