A small byte management library, that can abstract over various byte owning types, like Vec, bytes::Bytes, or memmap2::Mmap.

Acknowledgements

This library started as a fork of the minibyte library in facebooks sapling scm.

lib.rs:

minibytes

This create provides the Bytes type. It is similar to &[u8]: cloning or slicing are zero-copy. Unlike &[u8], Bytes does not have lifetime. This is done by maintaining the life cycle of the underlying storage using reference count.

Aside from supporting Vec<u8> as the underlying storage, Bytes also supports memmap2::Mmap. Libraries can implement BytesOwner for other types to further extend storage support.