| //! [![github]](https://github.com/dtolnay/unicode-ident) [![crates-io]](https://crates.io/crates/unicode-ident) [![docs-rs]](https://docs.rs/unicode-ident) |
| //! |
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| //! |
| //! <br> |
| //! |
| //! Implementation of [Unicode Standard Annex #31][tr31] for determining which |
| //! `char` values are valid in programming language identifiers. |
| //! |
| //! [tr31]: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/ |
| //! |
| //! This crate is a better optimized implementation of the older `unicode-xid` |
| //! crate. This crate uses less static storage, and is able to classify both |
| //! ASCII and non-ASCII codepoints with better performance, 2–10× |
| //! faster than `unicode-xid`. |
| //! |
| //! <br> |
| //! |
| //! ## Comparison of performance |
| //! |
| //! The following table shows a comparison between five Unicode identifier |
| //! implementations. |
| //! |
| //! - `unicode-ident` is this crate; |
| //! - [`unicode-xid`] is a widely used crate run by the "unicode-rs" org; |
| //! - `ucd-trie` and `fst` are two data structures supported by the |
| //! [`ucd-generate`] tool; |
| //! - [`roaring`] is a Rust implementation of Roaring bitmap. |
| //! |
| //! The *static storage* column shows the total size of `static` tables that the |
| //! crate bakes into your binary, measured in 1000s of bytes. |
| //! |
| //! The remaining columns show the **cost per call** to evaluate whether a |
| //! single `char` has the XID\_Start or XID\_Continue Unicode property, |
| //! comparing across different ratios of ASCII to non-ASCII codepoints in the |
| //! input data. |
| //! |
| //! [`unicode-xid`]: https://github.com/unicode-rs/unicode-xid |
| //! [`ucd-generate`]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ucd-generate |
| //! [`roaring`]: https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring-rs |
| //! |
| //! | | static storage | 0% nonascii | 1% | 10% | 100% nonascii | |
| //! |---|---|---|---|---|---| |
| //! | **`unicode-ident`** | 10.1 K | 0.96 ns | 0.95 ns | 1.09 ns | 1.55 ns | |
| //! | **`unicode-xid`** | 11.5 K | 1.88 ns | 2.14 ns | 3.48 ns | 15.63 ns | |
| //! | **`ucd-trie`** | 10.2 K | 1.29 ns | 1.28 ns | 1.36 ns | 2.15 ns | |
| //! | **`fst`** | 139 K | 55.1 ns | 54.9 ns | 53.2 ns | 28.5 ns | |
| //! | **`roaring`** | 66.1 K | 2.78 ns | 3.09 ns | 3.37 ns | 4.70 ns | |
| //! |
| //! Source code for the benchmark is provided in the *bench* directory of this |
| //! repo and may be repeated by running `cargo criterion`. |
| //! |
| //! <br> |
| //! |
| //! ## Comparison of data structures |
| //! |
| //! #### unicode-xid |
| //! |
| //! They use a sorted array of character ranges, and do a binary search to look |
| //! up whether a given character lands inside one of those ranges. |
| //! |
| //! ```rust |
| //! # const _: &str = stringify! { |
| //! static XID_Continue_table: [(char, char); 763] = [ |
| //! ('\u{30}', '\u{39}'), // 0-9 |
| //! ('\u{41}', '\u{5a}'), // A-Z |
| //! # " |
| //! … |
| //! # " |
| //! ('\u{e0100}', '\u{e01ef}'), |
| //! ]; |
| //! # }; |
| //! ``` |
| //! |
| //! The static storage used by this data structure scales with the number of |
| //! contiguous ranges of identifier codepoints in Unicode. Every table entry |
| //! consumes 8 bytes, because it consists of a pair of 32-bit `char` values. |
| //! |
| //! In some ranges of the Unicode codepoint space, this is quite a sparse |
| //! representation – there are some ranges where tens of thousands of |
| //! adjacent codepoints are all valid identifier characters. In other places, |
| //! the representation is quite inefficient. A characater like `µ` (U+00B5) |
| //! which is surrounded by non-identifier codepoints consumes 64 bits in the |
| //! table, while it would be just 1 bit in a dense bitmap. |
| //! |
| //! On a system with 64-byte cache lines, binary searching the table touches 7 |
| //! cache lines on average. Each cache line fits only 8 table entries. |
| //! Additionally, the branching performed during the binary search is probably |
| //! mostly unpredictable to the branch predictor. |
| //! |
| //! Overall, the crate ends up being about 10× slower on non-ASCII input |
| //! compared to the fastest crate. |
| //! |
| //! A potential improvement would be to pack the table entries more compactly. |
| //! Rust's `char` type is a 21-bit integer padded to 32 bits, which means every |
| //! table entry is holding 22 bits of wasted space, adding up to 3.9 K. They |
| //! could instead fit every table entry into 6 bytes, leaving out some of the |
| //! padding, for a 25% improvement in space used. With some cleverness it may be |
| //! possible to fit in 5 bytes or even 4 bytes by storing a low char and an |
| //! extent, instead of low char and high char. I don't expect that performance |
| //! would improve much but this could be the most efficient for space across all |
| //! the libraries, needing only about 7 K to store. |
| //! |
| //! #### ucd-trie |
| //! |
| //! Their data structure is a compressed trie set specifically tailored for |
| //! Unicode codepoints. The design is credited to Raph Levien in |
| //! [rust-lang/rust#33098]. |
| //! |
| //! [rust-lang/rust#33098]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/33098 |
| //! |
| //! ```rust |
| //! pub struct TrieSet { |
| //! tree1_level1: &'static [u64; 32], |
| //! tree2_level1: &'static [u8; 992], |
| //! tree2_level2: &'static [u64], |
| //! tree3_level1: &'static [u8; 256], |
| //! tree3_level2: &'static [u8], |
| //! tree3_level3: &'static [u64], |
| //! } |
| //! ``` |
| //! |
| //! It represents codepoint sets using a trie to achieve prefix compression. The |
| //! final states of the trie are embedded in leaves or "chunks", where each |
| //! chunk is a 64-bit integer. Each bit position of the integer corresponds to |
| //! whether a particular codepoint is in the set or not. These chunks are not |
| //! just a compact representation of the final states of the trie, but are also |
| //! a form of suffix compression. In particular, if multiple ranges of 64 |
| //! contiguous codepoints have the same Unicode properties, then they all map to |
| //! the same chunk in the final level of the trie. |
| //! |
| //! Being tailored for Unicode codepoints, this trie is partitioned into three |
| //! disjoint sets: tree1, tree2, tree3. The first set corresponds to codepoints |
| //! \[0, 0x800), the second \[0x800, 0x10000) and the third \[0x10000, |
| //! 0x110000). These partitions conveniently correspond to the space of 1 or 2 |
| //! byte UTF-8 encoded codepoints, 3 byte UTF-8 encoded codepoints and 4 byte |
| //! UTF-8 encoded codepoints, respectively. |
| //! |
| //! Lookups in this data structure are significantly more efficient than binary |
| //! search. A lookup touches either 1, 2, or 3 cache lines based on which of the |
| //! trie partitions is being accessed. |
| //! |
| //! One possible performance improvement would be for this crate to expose a way |
| //! to query based on a UTF-8 encoded string, returning the Unicode property |
| //! corresponding to the first character in the string. Without such an API, the |
| //! caller is required to tokenize their UTF-8 encoded input data into `char`, |
| //! hand the `char` into `ucd-trie`, only for `ucd-trie` to undo that work by |
| //! converting back into the variable-length representation for trie traversal. |
| //! |
| //! #### fst |
| //! |
| //! Uses a [finite state transducer][fst]. This representation is built into |
| //! [ucd-generate] but I am not aware of any advantage over the `ucd-trie` |
| //! representation. In particular `ucd-trie` is optimized for storing Unicode |
| //! properties while `fst` is not. |
| //! |
| //! [fst]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst |
| //! [ucd-generate]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ucd-generate |
| //! |
| //! As far as I can tell, the main thing that causes `fst` to have large size |
| //! and slow lookups for this use case relative to `ucd-trie` is that it does |
| //! not specialize for the fact that only 21 of the 32 bits in a `char` are |
| //! meaningful. There are some dense arrays in the structure with large ranges |
| //! that could never possibly be used. |
| //! |
| //! #### roaring |
| //! |
| //! This crate is a pure-Rust implementation of [Roaring Bitmap], a data |
| //! structure designed for storing sets of 32-bit unsigned integers. |
| //! |
| //! [Roaring Bitmap]: https://roaringbitmap.org/about/ |
| //! |
| //! Roaring bitmaps are compressed bitmaps which tend to outperform conventional |
| //! compressed bitmaps such as WAH, EWAH or Concise. In some instances, they can |
| //! be hundreds of times faster and they often offer significantly better |
| //! compression. |
| //! |
| //! In this use case the performance was reasonably competitive but still |
| //! substantially slower than the Unicode-optimized crates. Meanwhile the |
| //! compression was significantly worse, requiring 6× as much storage for |
| //! the data structure. |
| //! |
| //! I also benchmarked the [`croaring`] crate which is an FFI wrapper around the |
| //! C reference implementation of Roaring Bitmap. This crate was consistently |
| //! about 15% slower than pure-Rust `roaring`, which could just be FFI overhead. |
| //! I did not investigate further. |
| //! |
| //! [`croaring`]: https://crates.io/crates/croaring |
| //! |
| //! #### unicode-ident |
| //! |
| //! This crate is most similar to the `ucd-trie` library, in that it's based on |
| //! bitmaps stored in the leafs of a trie representation, achieving both prefix |
| //! compression and suffix compression. |
| //! |
| //! The key differences are: |
| //! |
| //! - Uses a single 2-level trie, rather than 3 disjoint partitions of different |
| //! depth each. |
| //! - Uses significantly larger chunks: 512 bits rather than 64 bits. |
| //! - Compresses the XID\_Start and XID\_Continue properties together |
| //! simultaneously, rather than duplicating identical trie leaf chunks across |
| //! the two. |
| //! |
| //! The following diagram show the XID\_Start and XID\_Continue Unicode boolean |
| //! properties in uncompressed form, in row-major order: |
| //! |
| //! <table> |
| //! <tr><th>XID_Start</th><th>XID_Continue</th></tr> |
| //! <tr> |
| //! <td><img alt="XID_Start bitmap" width="256" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1940490/168647353-c6eeb922-afec-49b2-9ef5-c03e9d1e0760.png"></td> |
| //! <td><img alt="XID_Continue bitmap" width="256" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1940490/168647367-f447cca7-2362-4d7d-8cd7-d21c011d329b.png"></td> |
| //! </tr> |
| //! </table> |
| //! |
| //! Uncompressed, these would take 140 K to store, which is beyond what would be |
| //! reasonable. However, as you can see there is a large degree of similarity |
| //! between the two bitmaps and across the rows, which lends well to |
| //! compression. |
| //! |
| //! This crate stores one 512-bit "row" of the above bitmaps in the leaf level |
| //! of a trie, and a single additional level to index into the leafs. It turns |
| //! out there are 124 unique 512-bit chunks across the two bitmaps so 7 bits are |
| //! sufficient to index them. |
| //! |
| //! The chunk size of 512 bits is selected as the size that minimizes the total |
| //! size of the data structure. A smaller chunk, like 256 or 128 bits, would |
| //! achieve better deduplication but require a larger index. A larger chunk |
| //! would increase redundancy in the leaf bitmaps. 512 bit chunks are the |
| //! optimum for total size of the index plus leaf bitmaps. |
| //! |
| //! In fact since there are only 124 unique chunks, we can use an 8-bit index |
| //! with a spare bit to index at the half-chunk level. This achieves an |
| //! additional 8.5% compression by eliminating redundancies between the second |
| //! half of any chunk and the first half of any other chunk. Note that this is |
| //! not the same as using chunks which are half the size, because it does not |
| //! necessitate raising the size of the trie's first level. |
| //! |
| //! In contrast to binary search or the `ucd-trie` crate, performing lookups in |
| //! this data structure is straight-line code with no need for branching. |
| |
| #![no_std] |
| #![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/unicode-ident/1.0.12")] |
| #![allow(clippy::doc_markdown, clippy::must_use_candidate)] |
| |
| #[rustfmt::skip] |
| mod tables; |
| |
| use crate::tables::{ASCII_CONTINUE, ASCII_START, CHUNK, LEAF, TRIE_CONTINUE, TRIE_START}; |
| |
| pub fn is_xid_start(ch: char) -> bool { |
| if ch.is_ascii() { |
| return ASCII_START.0[ch as usize]; |
| } |
| let chunk = *TRIE_START.0.get(ch as usize / 8 / CHUNK).unwrap_or(&0); |
| let offset = chunk as usize * CHUNK / 2 + ch as usize / 8 % CHUNK; |
| unsafe { LEAF.0.get_unchecked(offset) }.wrapping_shr(ch as u32 % 8) & 1 != 0 |
| } |
| |
| pub fn is_xid_continue(ch: char) -> bool { |
| if ch.is_ascii() { |
| return ASCII_CONTINUE.0[ch as usize]; |
| } |
| let chunk = *TRIE_CONTINUE.0.get(ch as usize / 8 / CHUNK).unwrap_or(&0); |
| let offset = chunk as usize * CHUNK / 2 + ch as usize / 8 % CHUNK; |
| unsafe { LEAF.0.get_unchecked(offset) }.wrapping_shr(ch as u32 % 8) & 1 != 0 |
| } |