pub struct Compact;
Expand description
A compact string representation equal to String
in size with guaranteed inlining.
This representation relies on pointer alignment to be able to store a discriminant bit in its
inline form that will never be present in its String
form, thus
giving us 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures, and 12 bytes on 32-bit, minus one bit, to encode our
inline string. It uses the rest of the discriminant bit’s byte to encode the string length, and
the remaining bytes (23 or 11 depending on arch) to store the string data. When the available space is exceeded,
it swaps itself out with a String
containing its previous
contents, relying on the discriminant bit in the String
’s pointer to be unset, so we can
store the String
safely without taking up any extra space for a discriminant.
This performs generally as well as String
on all ops on boxed strings, and
better than String
s on inlined strings.