Totally Speedy Transmute

An evil spiritual successor to Totally Safe Transmute

What is it?

Totally Speedy Transmute (TST) is a library providing a small, performance oriented, safe version of std::mem::transmute. TST is intended for:

• Totally Safe Transmute users looking for a windows-compatible alternative.
• Programmers working in #![forbid(unsafe_code)] codebases who dislike their co-workers.
• C, C++, and Go authors looking write scathing articles about how Rust isn't actually memory safe.
• IOCCC winners with an interest in Rust

TST's benefits:

• no unsafe code
• no file access to /proc/self/mem
• pure rust implementation
• gluten free, vegan
• no dependencies
• it would compile on stable if I knew how to use doc_include
• available on windows, linux, and select Samsung 4-Door Smart Refrigerators
• rated R for violence and language
• probably no_std compatible

For exotic use cases (such as FFI (just RIIR (lol))), or, if you just want to peel back the curtain, see safe!.

robot testimonial

Proof there is no unsafe:

$ grep unsafe
src/lib.rs
1:#![forbid(unsafe_code)]

safe/src/lib.rs
1:#![forbid(unsafe_code)]

$ cargo geiger
   Compiling safe v0.1.0 (/Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute/safe)
    Checking totally-speedy-transmute v0.1.0 (/Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute)
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.36s
    Scanning done

Metric output format: x/y
    x = unsafe code used by the build
    y = total unsafe code found in the crate

Symbols:
    🔒  = No `unsafe` usage found, declares #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
    ❓  = No `unsafe` usage found, missing #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
    ☢️   = `unsafe` usage found

Functions  Expressions  Impls  Traits  Methods  Dependency

0/0        0/0          0/0    0/0     0/0      🔒 totally-speedy-transmute 0.1.0
0/0        0/0          0/0    0/0     0/0      🔒 └── safe 0.1.0

0/0        0/0          0/0    0/0     0/0

$ cargo t
   Compiling totally-speedy-transmute v0.1.0 (/Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute)
    Finished test [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.26s
     Running unittests (target/debug/deps/totally_speedy_transmute-c545620424772de5)

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

     Running tests/wat.rs (target/debug/deps/wat-527d75fb46642aee)

running 5 tests
test leek ... ok
test fast_vec ... ok
test oops_all_mutable ... ok
test safe ... ok
test transmute_u8 ... ok

test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

   Doc-tests totally-speedy-transmute

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s


$ cargo t --release
   Compiling totally-speedy-transmute v0.1.0 (/Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute)
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.28s
     Running unittests (target/release/deps/totally_speedy_transmute-5a097808724739b1)

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

     Running tests/wat.rs (target/release/deps/wat-20a81a817034b78e)

running 5 tests
test leek ... ok
test fast_vec ... ok
test transmute_u8 ... ok
test safe ... ok
test oops_all_mutable ... ok

test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

   Doc-tests totally-speedy-transmute

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

$ pushd ~/cargo-osha/
$ cargo run -- ~/totally-speedy-transmute/**/*.rs
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.01s
     Running `target/debug/cargo-osha /Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute/safe/src/lib.rs /Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute/src/lib.rs /Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute/tests/wat.rs`
Processing file /Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute/safe/src/lib.rs
Processing file /Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute/src/lib.rs
Processing file /Users/jschmidt/totally-speedy-transmute/tests/wat.rs
Unsafe functions: 0/10
Unsafe expressions: 0/42
Unsafe traits: 0/0
Unsafe methods: 0/0
Unsafe impls: 0/0

$ poopd
fish: Unknown command: poopd

$ popd