Tranche

This crate defines a slice-like type represented as a pair of pointers instead of a pointer to the start and a length. The type is expected to be consumed from the start or the end and thus doesn't implement any sort of indexing like proper slices. Think of it as core::slice::Iter but with more methods.

Prior art

• Iterators for slices in the standard library itself, core::slice::Iter.
• The rawslice crate, which is a fork of the standard slice iterators.
• The byteorder crate, which inspired the BufTranche methods.

Licensing

This crate is licensed under both the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses, so you are free to do whatever you want with it as long as you respect the terms from these two.

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