https://github.com/thaliaarchi/self-ref-buffer
An experiment in combining persistent buffers and self-referential types in Rust
https://github.com/thaliaarchi/self-ref-buffer
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An experiment in combining persistent buffers and self-referential types in Rust
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/thaliaarchi/self-ref-buffer
- Owner: thaliaarchi
- Created: 2025-03-04T02:47:53.000Z (7 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-15T20:55:54.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-15T21:38:35.144Z (7 months ago)
- Language: Rust
- Size: 3.91 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Persistent buffers and self-referential types
An experiment in combining persistent buffers and self-referential types in
Rust.
This has a minimal example of a buffered reader type which uses persistent,
reference-counted buffers. Once data is written to a buffer, it cannot be
overwritten. Shared borrows can be retained to the filled portion while writing
into the untilled portion. When a buffer is filled or has insufficient space,
the reader constructs a new buffer.
I want pair it with [`yoke`](https://docs.rs/yoke/latest/yoke/)-like
self-referential structs. The owner is the borrowed buffers (specifically, a vec
of reference counted references to them). The borrowed fields are
`&'owner [u8]`. Currently, this part does not compile.
This is an experiment, so its API is deliberately minimal and the buffer and
reader types are hacked together for demonstration.