Crate thunderdome

Thunderdome is a gladitorial generational arena inspired by generational-arena, slotmap, and slab. It provides constant time insertion, lookup, and removal via small (8 byte) keys returned from Arena.

Thunderdome’s key type, Index, is still 8 bytes when put inside of an Option<T> thanks to Rust’s NonZero* types.

Basic Examples

let mut arena = Arena::new();

let foo = arena.insert("Foo");
let bar = arena.insert("Bar");

assert_eq!(arena[foo], "Foo");
assert_eq!(arena[bar], "Bar");

arena[bar] = "Replaced";
assert_eq!(arena[bar], "Replaced");

let foo_value = arena.remove(foo);
assert_eq!(foo_value, Some("Foo"));

// The slot previously used by foo will be reused for baz
let baz = arena.insert("Baz");
assert_eq!(arena[baz], "Baz");

// foo is no longer a valid key
assert_eq!(arena.get(foo), None);

Comparison With Similar Crates

Feature	Thunderdome	generational-arena	slotmap	slab
Generational Indices¹	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
size_of::<Index>()	8	16	8	8
size_of::<Option<Index>>()	8	24	8	16
Max Elements	2³²	2⁶⁴	2³²	2⁶⁴
Non-Copy Values	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
no_std Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Serde Support	No	Yes	Yes	No

• Sizes calculated on rustc 1.44.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
• See the Thunderdome comparison Cargo.toml for versions of each library tested.

1. Generational indices help solve the ABA Problem, which can cause dangling keys to mistakenly access newly-inserted data.

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)

Thunderdome supports Rust 1.47.0 and newer. Until Thunderdome reaches 1.0, changes to the MSRV will require major version bumps. After 1.0, MSRV changes will only require minor version bumps, but will need significant justification.

Crate Features

• std (default): Use the standard library. Disable to make this crate no-std compatible.

Modules

• iter
  Contains all of the iterator types for Thunderdome.

Structs

• Arena
  Container that can have elements inserted into it and removed from it.
• Index
  Index type for Arena that has a generation attached to it.