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Add Vec visualization to understand capacity #79655

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23 changes: 23 additions & 0 deletions library/alloc/src/vec/mod.rs
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Expand Up @@ -285,6 +285,28 @@ mod spec_extend;
/// you would see if you coerced it to a slice), followed by [`capacity`]` -
/// `[`len`] logically uninitialized, contiguous elements.
///
/// A vector containing the elements `'a'` and `'b'` with capacity 4 can be
/// visualized as below. The top part is the `Vec` struct, it contains a
/// pointer to the head of the allocation in the heap, length and capacity.
/// The bottom part is the allocation on the heap, a contiguous memory block.
///
/// ```text
/// ptr len capacity
/// +--------+--------+--------+
/// | 0x0123 | 2 | 4 |
/// +--------+--------+--------+
/// |
/// v
/// Heap +--------+--------+--------+--------+
/// | 'a' | 'b' | uninit | uninit |
/// +--------+--------+--------+--------+
/// ```
///
/// - **uninit** represents memory that is not initialized, see [`MaybeUninit`].
/// - Note: the ABI is not stable and `Vec` makes no guarantees about its memory
/// layout (including the order of fields). See [the section about
/// guarantees](#guarantees).
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///
/// `Vec` will never perform a "small optimization" where elements are actually
/// stored on the stack for two reasons:
///
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/// [`push`]: Vec::push
/// [`insert`]: Vec::insert
/// [`reserve`]: Vec::reserve
/// [`MaybeUninit`]: core::mem::MaybeUninit
/// [owned slice]: Box
/// [slice]: ../../std/primitive.slice.html
/// [`&`]: ../../std/primitive.reference.html
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