Provided that the iterator has finite length and does not trigger user-provided code, this is safe.
What follows is a full list of the DoubleEndedIterators in liballoc/libcore and whether this optimization is safe, and if not, why not.
src/liballoc/boxed.rs
Box: Pass through to avoid defeating optimization of the underlying DoubleIterator implementation. This has no correctness impact.
src/liballoc/collections/binary_heap.rs
Iter: Pass through to avoid defeating optimizations on slice::Iter
IntoIter: Not safe, changes Drop order
Drain: Not safe, changes Drop order
src/liballoc/collections/btree/map.rs
Iter: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
IterMut: ditto
IntoIter: Not safe, changes Drop order
Keys: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
Values: ditto
ValuesMut: ditto
Range: ditto
RangeMut: ditto
src/liballoc/collections/btree/set.rs
Iter: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
IntoIter: Not safe, changes Drop order
Range: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
src/liballoc/collections/linked_list.rs
Iter: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
IterMut: ditto
IntoIter: Not safe, changes Drop order
src/liballoc/collections/vec_deque.rs
Iter: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
IterMut: ditto
IntoIter: Not safe, changes Drop order
Drain: ditto
src/liballoc/string.rs
Drain: Safe because return type is a primitive (char)
src/liballoc/vec.rs
IntoIter: Not safe, changes Drop order
Drain: ditto
Splice: ditto
src/libcore/ascii.rs
EscapeDefault: Safe because return type is a primitive (u8)
src/libcore/iter/adapters/chain.rs
Chain: Not safe, invokes user defined code (Iterator impl)
src/libcore/iter/adapters/flatten.rs
FlatMap: Not safe, invokes user defined code (Iterator impl)
Flatten: ditto
FlattenCompat: ditto
src/libcore/iter/adapters/mod.rs
Rev: Not safe, invokes user defined code (Iterator impl)
Copied: ditto
Cloned: Not safe, invokes user defined code (Iterator impl and T::clone)
Map: Not safe, invokes user defined code (Iterator impl + closure)
Filter: ditto
FilterMap: ditto
Enumerate: Not safe, invokes user defined code (Iterator impl)
Skip: ditto
Fuse: ditto
Inspect: ditto
src/libcore/iter/adapters/zip.rs
Zip: Not safe, invokes user defined code (Iterator impl)
src/libcore/iter/range.rs
ops::Range: Not safe, changes Drop order, but ALREADY HAS SPECIALIZATION
ops::RangeInclusive: ditto
src/libcore/iter/sources.rs
Repeat: Not safe, calling last should iloop.
Empty: No point, iterator is at most one item long.
Once: ditto
OnceWith: ditto
src/libcore/option.rs
Item: No point, iterator is at most one item long.
Iter: ditto
IterMut: ditto
IntoIter: ditto
src/libcore/result.rs
Iter: No point, iterator is at most one item long
IterMut: ditto
IntoIter: ditto
src/libcore/slice/mod.rs
Split: Not safe, invokes user defined closure
SplitMut: ditto
RSplit: ditto
RSplitMut: ditto
Windows: Safe, already has specialization
Chunks: ditto
ChunksMut: ditto
ChunksExact: ditto
ChunksExactMut: ditto
RChunks: ditto
RChunksMut: ditto
RChunksExact: ditto
RChunksExactMut: ditto
src/libcore/str/mod.rs
Chars: Safe, already has specialization
CharIndices: ditto
Bytes: ditto
Lines: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
LinesAny: Deprecated
Everything that is generic over P: Pattern: Not safe because Pattern invokes user defined code.
SplitWhitespace: Safe to call next_back, invokes no user defined code.
SplitAsciiWhitespace: ditto
string: implement From<&String> for String
Allow Strings to be created from borrowed Strings. This is mostly
to make things like passing `&String` to an `impl Into<String>`
parameter frictionless.
Fixes#59827.
Add implementations of last in terms of next_back on a bunch of DoubleEndedIterators
Provided a `DoubleEndedIterator` has finite length, `Iterator::last` is equivalent to `DoubleEndedIterator::next_back`. But searching forwards through the iterator when it's unnecessary is obviously not good for performance. I ran into this on one of the collection iterators.
I tried adding appropriate overloads for a bunch of the iterator adapters like filter, map, etc, but I ran into a lot of type inference failures after doing so.
The other interesting case is what to do with `Repeat`. Do we consider it part of the contract that `Iterator::last` will loop forever on it? The docs do say that the iterator will be evaluated until it returns None. This is also relevant for the adapters, it's trivially easy to observe whether a `Map` adapter invoked its closure a zillion times or just once for the last element.
It's natural for `retain` to work in order from beginning to end, but
this wasn't actually documented to be the case. If we actually promise
this, then the caller can do useful things like track the index of each
element being tested, as [discussed in the forum][1]. This is now
documented for `Vec`, `VecDeque`, and `String`.
[1]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/vec-retain-by-index/27697
`HashMap` and `HashSet` also have `retain`, and the `hashbrown`
implementation does happen to use a plain `iter()` order too, but it's
not certain that this should always be the case for these types.
Allow Strings to be created from borrowed Strings. This is mostly
to make things like passing &String to an `impl Into<String>`
parameter frictionless.
Optimized string FromIterator + Extend impls
I noticed that there was a lost opportunity to reuse string buffers in `FromIterator<String>` and `FromIterator<Cow<str>>`; updated the implementations to use these. In practice this translates to at least one fewer allocation when using these APIs.
Additionally, rewrote `Extend` implementations to use `iter.for_each`, which (supposedly) helps the compiler optimize those loops (because iterator adapters are encouraged to provide optimized implementations of `fold` and `try_fold`.
Speed up String::from_utf16
Collecting into a `Result` is idiomatic, but not necessarily fast due to rustc not being able to preallocate for the resulting collection. This is fine in case of an error, but IMO we should optimize for the common case, i.e. a successful conversion.
This changes the behavior of `String::from_utf16` from collecting into a `Result` to pushing to a preallocated `String` in a loop.
According to [my simple benchmark](https://gist.github.com/ljedrz/953a3fb74058806519bd4d640d6f65ae) this change makes `String::from_utf16` around **twice** as fast.
There are a few places where we mention the replacement character in the
docs, and it could be helpful for users to utilize the constant which is
available in the standard library, so let’s link to it!
Deprecation of str::slice_unchecked(_mut)
Closes#51715
I am not sure if 1.28.0 or 1.29.0 should be used for deprecation version, for now it's 1.28.0.
Additionally I've replaced `slice_unchecked` uses with `get_unchecked`. The only places where this method is still used are `src/liballoc/tests/str.rs` and `src/liballoc/tests/str.rs`.
Implement From for more types on Cow
This is basically https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/48191, except that it should be implemented in a way that doesn't break third party crates.
Mazdak Farrokhzad