The type is unsafe and now exposed to the whole crate.
Document it properly and add an unsafe method so the
caller can make it visible that something unsafe is happening.
Clarify `array::from_fn` documentation
I've seen quite a few of people on social media confused of where the length of array is coming from in the newly stabilized `array::from_fn` example.
This PR tries to clarify the documentation on this.
Optimize `array::IntoIter`
`.into_iter()` on arrays was slower than it needed to be (especially compared to slice iterator) since it uses `Range<usize>`, which needs to handle degenerate ranges like `10..4`.
This PR adds an internal `IndexRange` type that's like `Range<usize>` but with a safety invariant that means it doesn't need to worry about those cases -- it only handles `start <= end` -- and thus can give LLVM more information to optimize better.
I added one simple demonstration of the improvement as a codegen test.
(`vec::IntoIter` uses pointers instead of indexes, so doesn't have this problem, but that only works because its elements are boxed. `array::IntoIter` can't use pointers because that would keep it from being movable.)
`.into_iter()` on arrays was slower than it needed to be (especially compared to slice iterator) since it uses `Range<usize>`, which needs to handle degenerate ranges like `10..4`.
This PR adds an internal `IndexRange` type that's like `Range<usize>` but with a safety invariant that means it doesn't need to worry about those cases -- it only handles `start <= end` -- and thus can give LLVM more information to optimize better.
I added one simple demonstration of the improvement as a codegen test.
On my first Rust project, I spent more time than I care to admit
figuring out how to efficiently get an array from a slice. Update the
array documentation to explain this a bit more clearly.
(As a side note, it's a bit unfortunate that get-array-from-slice is
only available via trait since that means it can't be used from const
functions yet.)
Constify `Index{,Mut}` for `[T]`, `str`, and `[T; N]`
Several panic functions were rewired (via `const_eval_select`) to simpler implementations that do not require formatting for compile-time usage.
r? ```@oli-obk```
This'll still go via slices eventually for large arrays, but this way slice comparisons to short arrays can use the same memcmp-avoidance tricks.
Added some tests for all the combinations to make sure I didn't accidentally infinitely-recurse something.
`array::IntoIter` has a bunch of really handy logic for dealing with partial arrays, but it's currently hamstrung by only being creatable from a fully-initialized array.
This PR adds two new constructors:
- a safe & const `empty`, since `[].into_iter()` gives `<T, 0>`, not `<T, N>`.
- an unsafe `from_raw_parts`, to allow experimentation with new uses.
(Slice & vec iterators don't need `from_raw_parts` because you `from_raw_parts` the slice or vec instead, but there's no useful way to made a `<[T; N]>::from_raw_parts`, so I think this is a reasonable place to have one.)
Fixes 85115
This only updates unstable functions.
`array::try_map` didn't actually exist before, despite the tracking issue 79711 still being open from the old PR 79713.
