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Import ideas from `heapsize` crate

Open str4d opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

I searched for existing crates prior to writing this one, and somehow completely missed the heapsize crate from the Servo devs. It takes a very similar approach to this crate, in that it defines a trait that individual library developers would implement for their own types. It is also used by a small but

However, the crate has been unmaintained since 2019, the Servo devs having abandoned this approach in favour of their internal malloc_size_of crate. Had I discovered heapsize, I probably would have tried extending it, but now that memuse exists, we should take the opportunity to experiment and figure out a design we like (which may or may not stay close to heapsize).

In any case, we should look over the heapsize crate for useful ideas. In particular, it impls its traits for several more stdlib structs than we currently do.

str4d avatar Sep 06 '21 17:09 str4d