Note from the Maintainer

This crate was mostly developed for Materialize out of a need for a more compact bytes container. It entirely borrows implementation from compact_str which has been thoughtfully maintained over the past few years by a number of dedicated contributors, including:

• NobodyXu
• Kijewski
• matklad
• CAD97
• mcronce
• neoeinstein
• tylerhawkes
• dragazo
• Nilstrieb
• njaard
• vipentii
• vbasky
• mishrasamiksha

For now this repository exists separately from compact_str because it's easier to get started that way. But the plan is to eventually merge the two.