nushell/crates/nu-protocol
Stefan Holderbach 0cf7de598b
Refactor Record to use a single backing Vec (#12326)
# Description
This shrinks `Record`'s size in half and and allows you to include it in
`Value` without growing the size.

Changing the `Record` internals may have slightly different performance
characteristics as the cache locality changes on lookups (if you
directly need the value, it should be closer, but in other cases may
blow up the cache line budget)

Also different perf characteristics on creation expected. 
`Record::from_raw_cols_vals` now probably worse.

## Benchmarking

Comparison with the main branch (boxed Record) revealed no significant
change to the creation but an improvement when accessing larger N.
The fact that this was more pronounced for nested access (still cloning
before nushell/nushell#12325) leads to the conclusion that this may
still be dominated by the smaller clone necessary for a 24-byte `Record`
over the previous 48 bytes.

# User-Facing Changes

Reduced memory usage
2024-03-31 00:47:17 +01:00
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src Refactor Record to use a single backing Vec (#12326) 2024-03-31 00:47:17 +01:00
tests Name the Value conversion functions more clearly (#11851) 2024-02-17 18:14:16 +00:00
Cargo.toml Move more dependencies to workspace level (#12270) 2024-03-23 18:46:02 -05:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

nu-protocol

The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.