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//! Interned string and more for rust. //! //! # What is interning? //! //! Interning is a method to store exactly one copy of immutable data. //! //! Imagine your program holds lots of string values, mostly same value in it, //! and does not mutate them at all. If you use `String` to store them, //! lots of memories are wasted just for storing identical texts. //! //! Interning efficiently eliminate this problem by managing global pool of cache, //! in the case above the type of the pool can be `HashSet<Rc<str>>`. //! When you need a new owned string, first you should lookup global pool for it. //! If desired string is found then use it. //! If not, just create a new one and put them also to the pool. //! //! Or, you can just use `internship` and ignore all the hassle. Why not? //! //! # What does this library provide? //! //! This crate exposes a set of interned types which correspond to `Rc` //! but guaranteed to be unique over its value within thread. //! Instances of them are per-thread cached to archive this goal. //! //! Additionally, these types does not heap-allocate small data that can be fit on stack. //! Size limit of inline-able data is 15 bytes on 64-byte machines. //! //! `IStr`, `IBytes`, and `ICStr` correspond to `str`, `[u8]`, and `CStr` respectively. #[cfg(feature = "serde-compat")] extern crate serde; mod handle; mod istr; mod ibytes; mod icstr; pub use istr::IStr; pub use ibytes::IBytes; pub use icstr::ICStr;