Crate heaparray

This crate holds a struct, HeapArray, that internally points to a contiguous block of memory. It also supports storing arbitrary data adjacent to the block of memory.

Examples

Creating an array:

use heaparray::*;
let len = 10;
let array = HeapArray::new(len, |idx| idx + 3);

Indexing works as you would expect:

array[3] = 2;
assert!(array[3] == 2);

Notably, you can take ownership of objects back from the container:

let mut array = HeapArray::new(10, |_| Vec::<u8>::new());
let replacement_object = Vec::new();
let owned_object = array.insert(0, replacement_object);

but you need to give the array a replacement object to fill its slot with.

Additionally, you can customize what information should be stored alongside the elements in the array using the HeapArray::new_labelled function:

struct MyLabel {
    pub even: usize,
    pub odd: usize,
}

let mut array = HeapArray::new_labelled(
    MyLabel { even: 0, odd: 0 },
    100,
    |label, index| {
        if index % 2 == 0 {
            label.even += 1;
            index
        } else {
            label.odd += 1;
            index
        }
    });

Modules

memory_block

Memory blocks that can be created on the heap to hold an arbitrary amount of data.

Structs

FatPtrArray	Heap-allocated array, with array size stored with the pointer to the memory.
HeapArray	Heap-allocated array, with array size stored with the pointer to the memory.
ThinPtrArray	Heap-allocated array, with array size stored alongside the memory block itself.

Traits

Array	Statically-sized array stored in the heap.
Container	Trait for a simple container.
CopyMap	Trait for a container indexed by a value that implements copy. The value that indexes the container must implement the Eq trait to.
LabelledArray	Array with an optional label struct stored next to the data.