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Rust High Performance

You're reading from   Rust High Performance Learn to skyrocket the performance of your Rust applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399487
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iban Eguia Moraza Iban Eguia Moraza
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Standard library collections

Rust's standard library has eight different collection types in the std::collections module. They are divided into sequences, maps, sets, and a binary heap that does not fit in any group. The most well known ones are arguably HashMap and Vec, but each of them has a use case, and you should know about them to use the proper one in each moment.

The official standard library documentation is really good, so you should check it thoroughly. In any case, though, I will introduce the types so that you can familiarize yourself with them. Let's start with sequences.

Sequences

The most-used dynamic sequence in Rust and in most languages is the vector, represented in Rust as Vec. You can add...

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