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Rust Standard Library Cookbook
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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

by Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
6h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with Collections

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using a vector
  • Using a string
  • Accessing collections as iterators
  • Using a VecDeque
  • Using a HashMap
  • Using a HashSet
  • Creating an own iterator
  • Using a slab

Introduction

Rust provides a very broad set of collections to use. We will look at most of them, see how they're used, discuss how they're implemented, and when to use and choose them. A big part of this chapter focuses on iterators. Much of Rust's flexibility comes from them, as all collections (and more!) can be used as iterators. Learning how to use them is crucial.

Throughout this chapter, we are going to use the big O notation to show how effective certain algorithms are. In case you don't know it yet, it ...

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