pub struct Vertex<T> { /* private fields */ }
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An internal type that stores the payload and relationships of a node in a
Tree
<T>
or PolyTree
<T>
.
Every node on the tree is represented by a Vertex
<T>
. The len
field
stores the number of descendants the node has; this is the number of nodes
in the subtree below the node. A leaf node has length 0
.
Every Tree
<T>
contains a Vec
<
Vertex
<T>>
representing the
trees nodes in a depth first order; meaning every vertex is followed by its
first child. This makes it very easy to take a slice of the vertex buffer
that represents a subtree. We expose such a slice to the user as a
Node
<T>
.
The type implements Clone
and Copy
as long as the payload T
implements the same. Supporting Copy
is important to ensure
Vec::extend_from_slice
executes as fast as possible. This method is used
by Sapling::push_tree
to copy the nodes of a tree into another sapling.