This crate is work in progress, full of unsafe and mostly untested.
German/Umbra-style strings are strings which inline small strings and store a short inline prefix and a pointer for larger strings. This crate implements three storage classes for strings stored out of line similar to Umbra:
- static (what Umbra calls persistent)
- borrowed, with borrow checking (transient)
- heap allocated (temporary)
See this blogpost and the Umbra paper for an explanation of this string format.
This crate currently does not provide str based types, only [u8].