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jaburns / genindex.cpp
Last active March 10, 2023 18:10
Generational indices in C++ vs Rust
/*
Copyright 2021 Jeremy Burns
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use std::{iter, slice, vec};
use std::iter::FromIterator;
/// A unique identifier with an associated usize index. Indexes are valued proportional to the
/// number of indexes allocated, are reused after being freed, and do not grow without bound. When
/// an index is re-used, an associated "generation" is incremented, so that within the life of a
/// single allocator, no two GenerationalIndex values will ever be equal. Since the indexes do not
/// grow without bound, GenerationalIndex values are particularly suited to being stored by their
/// index in extremely fast contiguous arrays.
#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash, Clone, Copy, Debug)]