Crate memchr

The memchr crate provides heavily optimized routines for searching bytes.

The memchr function is traditionally provided by libc, however, the performance of memchr can vary significantly depending on the specific implementation of libc that is used. They can range from manually tuned Assembly implementations (like that found in GNU's libc) all the way to non-vectorized C implementations (like that found in MUSL).

To smooth out the differences between implementations of libc, at least on x86_64 for Rust 1.27+, this crate provides its own implementation of memchr that should perform competitively with the one found in GNU's libc. The implementation is in pure Rust and has no dependency on a C compiler or an Assembler.

Additionally, GNU libc also provides an extension, memrchr. This crate provides its own implementation of memrchr as well, on top of memchr2, memchr3, memrchr2 and memrchr3. The difference between memchr and memchr2 is that that memchr2 permits finding all occurrences of two bytes instead of one. Similarly for memchr3.

Structs

Memchr	An iterator for memchr.
Memchr2	An iterator for memchr2.
Memchr3	An iterator for memchr3.

Functions

memchr	Search for the first occurrence of a byte in a slice.
memchr2_iter	An iterator over all occurrences of the needles in a haystack.
memchr2	Like memchr, but searches for either of two bytes instead of just one.
memchr3_iter	An iterator over all occurrences of the needles in a haystack.
memchr3	Like memchr, but searches for any of three bytes instead of just one.
memchr_iter	An iterator over all occurrences of the needle in a haystack.
memrchr	Search for the last occurrence of a byte in a slice.
memrchr2_iter	An iterator over all occurrences of the needles in a haystack, in reverse.
memrchr2	Like memrchr, but searches for either of two bytes instead of just one.
memrchr3_iter	An iterator over all occurrences of the needles in a haystack, in reverse.
memrchr3	Like memrchr, but searches for any of three bytes instead of just one.
memrchr_iter	An iterator over all occurrences of the needle in a haystack, in reverse.