Beginning Rust: From Novice to Professional

© Carlo Milanesi 2018

Carlo MilanesiBeginning Rusthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3468-6_20

20. Standard Library Collections

Carlo Milanesi¹ 

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Bergamo, Italy

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• How to measure the time spent running portions of Rust code

• How performance reasons suggest the use of several kinds of collections

• Which is the best collection for various kinds of operations: sequential scan, insertion and removal of items at both ends, removal of the largest item, search, search by key, keeping items sorted

Collections

Arrays, vectors, structs, tuple-structs, tuples, and enums are data types whose objects may contain several other objects. However, for structs, tuple-structs, tuples, and enums, for each contained object a specific clause ...