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no-std string-interner

Efficient string interner with minimal memory footprint and fast access to the underlying strings

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String Interner

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A data structure to cache strings efficiently, with minimal memory footprint and the ability to assicate the interned strings with unique symbols. These symbols allow for constant time comparisons and look-ups to the underlying interned string contents. Also, iterating through the interned strings is cache efficient.

Contributing

Testing

Test the project using

cargo test --release

Memory Allocation Tests

To further test memory consumption and allocations performed by the different string interner backends test the project as follows:

cargo test --release --features test-allocations -- --test-threads 1
  • The --features test-allocations enables the memory allocations tests.
  • The --test-thread 1 argument is required for the memory allocations tests since otherwise they interfere with each other causing them to randomly fail.
  • Use --nocapture to receive verbose output useful for debugging.

Profiling & Benchmarks

Benchmark the string interner and its various backends using

cargo bench

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

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Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as below, without any additional terms or conditions.

Dependencies

~0.6–1MB
~16K SLoC