Struct alloc::boxed::ThinBox

pub struct ThinBox<T: ?Sized> { /* private fields */ }

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (thin_box #92791)

ThinBox.

A thin pointer for heap allocation, regardless of T.

Examples

#![feature(thin_box)]
use std::boxed::ThinBox;

let five = ThinBox::new(5);
let thin_slice = ThinBox::<[i32]>::new_unsize([1, 2, 3, 4]);

use std::mem::{size_of, size_of_val};
let size_of_ptr = size_of::<*const ()>();
assert_eq!(size_of_ptr, size_of_val(&five));
assert_eq!(size_of_ptr, size_of_val(&thin_slice));

Implementations

impl<T> ThinBox<T>

pub fn new(value: T) -> Self

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (thin_box #92791)

Moves a type to the heap with its Metadata stored in the heap allocation instead of on the stack.

Examples

#![feature(thin_box)]
use std::boxed::ThinBox;

let five = ThinBox::new(5);

impl<Dyn: ?Sized> ThinBox<Dyn>

pub fn new_unsize<T>(value: T) -> Self where
    T: Unsize<Dyn>, 

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (thin_box #92791)

Moves a type to the heap with its Metadata stored in the heap allocation instead of on the stack.

Examples

#![feature(thin_box)]
use std::boxed::ThinBox;

let thin_slice = ThinBox::<[i32]>::new_unsize([1, 2, 3, 4]);

Trait Implementations

impl<T: ?Sized + Debug> Debug for ThinBox<T>

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<T: ?Sized> Deref for ThinBox<T>

type Target = T

The resulting type after dereferencing.

fn deref(&self) -> &T

Dereferences the value.

impl<T: ?Sized> DerefMut for ThinBox<T>

fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut T

Mutably dereferences the value.

impl<T: ?Sized + Display> Display for ThinBox<T>

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<T: ?Sized> Drop for ThinBox<T>

fn drop(&mut self)

Executes the destructor for this type.