Crate partitions

A disjoint-sets/union-find implementation of a vector partitioned in sets that allows for efficient iteration over elements of a set.

The main struct of this crate is PartitionVec<T> which has the functionality of a Vec<T> and in addition divides the elements of this vector in sets. The elements each start in their own set and sets can be joined with the union method. You can check if elements share a set with the same_set method and iterate on the elements in a set with the set method. The union and same_set methods are extremely fast and have an amortized complexity of O(α(n)) where α`` is the inverse Ackermann function and nis the length. This complexity is proven to be optimal andα(n)has value below 5 for anyn that can be written in the observable universe. The next element of the iterator returned by [set] is found in O(1)` time.

The Disjoint-Sets algorithm is used in high-performance implementations of unification. It is also a key component in implementing Kruskal’s algorithm to find the minimum spanning tree of a graph.

This implementation stores three integers as usize values for every element in the PartitionVec<T>, two values are needed to get the best complexity of the Disjoint-Sets algorithm and the third is used to allow iteration over sets and other methods like the make_singleton method that removes the element of its current set and gives it its own set.

A more compact implementation is included that has the same functionality but only needs to store an additional two usize values instead of three for every element. This is done by using a few bits of these two integers to store the third. Because this third value is always very small we only need three bits on a 32 or 64 bit system. This does mean that the maximum amounts of elements stored on 32 and 64 bit systems are 536 870 912 and 2 305 843 009 213 693 952 respectively. This limit should never be reached under any normal circumstances but if you do the struct will panic. This representation can be enabled by adding the following to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies.partitions]
version = "0.2"
features = ["compact"]

Re-exports

pub use partition_vec::PartitionVec;

Modules

partition_vec

A disjoint-sets/union-find implementation of a vector partitioned in sets.

Macros

partition_vec

Creates a PartitionVec containing the arguments.