nested

A memory efficient container for nested collections.

This crate is intended to be used when:

• you want a potentially large:
  • Vec<String>
  • Vec<Vec<T>>
  • Vec<C> where C is heap allocated, dynamically sized and can implement Collection trait
• you actually only need to use borrowed items (&[T] or &str)

Instead of having n + 1 allocations, you'll only have 2.

Example

use nested::Nested;

let mut v = Nested::<String>::new();

// you can either populate it one by one
v.push("a");
v.push("bb".to_string());
v.push("hhh");
v.extend(vec!["iiiiii".to_string(), "jjjj".to_string()]);
assert_eq!(v.len(), 5);
assert_eq!(&v[0], "a");
assert_eq!(&v[1], "bb");

// or you can directly collect it
let mut v = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"].iter().collect::<Nested<String>>();
assert_eq!(v.len(), 7);

// it also provides basic operations
let u = v.split_off(2);
assert_eq!(u.get(0), Some("c"));

v.truncate(1);
assert_eq!(v.pop(), Some("a".to_string()));
assert_eq!(v.pop(), None);

Benches

See benches directory.

Here are the benches for collecting all words in src/lib.rs file:

test bench_nested_string      ... bench:      92,909 ns/iter (+/- 17,258)
test bench_nested_string_iter ... bench:     110,710 ns/iter (+/- 13,485)
test bench_vec_string         ... bench:     159,431 ns/iter (+/- 37,868)
test bench_vec_string_iter    ... bench:     173,718 ns/iter (+/- 14,779)

Licence

MIT