For ranges < usize we determine the number of items
StepBy would yield and then store that in the range.end
instead of the actual end. This significantly
simplifies calculation of the loop induction variable
especially in cases where StepBy::step (an usize)
could overflow the Range's item type
A successful advance is now signalled by returning `0` and other values now represent the remaining number
of steps that couldn't be advanced as opposed to the amount of steps that have been advanced during a partial advance_by.
This simplifies adapters a bit, replacing some `match`/`if` with arithmetic. Whether this is beneficial overall depends
on whether `advance_by` is mostly used as a building-block for other iterator methods and adapters or whether
we also see uses by users where `Result` might be more useful.
Refactor iteration logic in the `Flatten` and `FlatMap` iterators
The `Flatten` and `FlatMap` iterators both delegate to `FlattenCompat`:
```rust
struct FlattenCompat<I, U> {
iter: Fuse<I>,
frontiter: Option<U>,
backiter: Option<U>,
}
```
Every individual iterator method that `FlattenCompat` implements needs to carefully manage this state, checking whether the `frontiter` and `backiter` are present, and storing the current iterator appropriately if iteration is aborted. This has led to methods such as `next`, `advance_by`, and `try_fold` all having similar code for managing the iterator's state.
I have extracted this common logic of iterating the inner iterators with the option to exit early into a `iter_try_fold` method:
```rust
impl<I, U> FlattenCompat<I, U>
where
I: Iterator<Item: IntoIterator<IntoIter = U>>,
{
fn iter_try_fold<Acc, Fold, R>(&mut self, acc: Acc, fold: Fold) -> R
where
Fold: FnMut(Acc, &mut U) -> R,
R: Try<Output = Acc>,
{ ... }
}
```
It passes each of the inner iterators to the given function as long as it keep succeeding. It takes care of managing `FlattenCompat`'s state, so that the actual `Iterator` methods don't need to. The resulting code that makes use of this abstraction is much more straightforward:
```rust
fn next(&mut self) -> Option<U::Item> {
#[inline]
fn next<U: Iterator>((): (), iter: &mut U) -> ControlFlow<U::Item> {
match iter.next() {
None => ControlFlow::CONTINUE,
Some(x) => ControlFlow::Break(x),
}
}
self.iter_try_fold((), next).break_value()
}
```
Note that despite being implemented in terms of `iter_try_fold`, `next` is still able to benefit from `U`'s `next` method. It therefore does not take the performance hit that implementing `next` directly in terms of `Self::try_fold` causes (in some benchmarks).
This PR also adds `iter_try_rfold` which captures the shared logic of `try_rfold` and `advance_back_by`, as well as `iter_fold` and `iter_rfold` for folding without early exits (used by `fold`, `rfold`, `count`, and `last`).
Benchmark results:
```
before after
bench_flat_map_sum 423,255 ns/iter 414,338 ns/iter
bench_flat_map_ref_sum 1,942,139 ns/iter 2,216,643 ns/iter
bench_flat_map_chain_sum 1,616,840 ns/iter 1,246,445 ns/iter
bench_flat_map_chain_ref_sum 4,348,110 ns/iter 3,574,775 ns/iter
bench_flat_map_chain_option_sum 780,037 ns/iter 780,679 ns/iter
bench_flat_map_chain_option_ref_sum 2,056,458 ns/iter 834,932 ns/iter
```
I added the last two benchmarks specifically to demonstrate an extreme case where `FlatMap::next` can benefit from custom internal iteration of the outer iterator, so take it with a grain of salt. We should probably do a perf run to see if the changes to `next` are worth it in practice.
The `advance_by(n)` docs state that in the error case `Err(k)` that k is always less than n.
It also states that `advance_by(0)` may return `Err(0)` to indicate an exhausted iterator.
These statements are inconsistent.
Since only one implementation (Skip) actually made use of that I changed it to return Ok(()) in that case too.
While adding some tests I also found a bug in `Take::advance_back_by`.
Due to #20400 the corresponding TrustedLen impls need a helper trait
instead of directly adding `Item = &[T;N]` bounds.
Since TrustedLen is a public trait this in turn means
the helper trait needs to be public. Since it's just a workaround
for a compiler deficit it's marked hidden, unstable and unsafe.
This only works if arrays are passed directly instead of array iterators
because we need to be sure that they have not been advanced before
Flatten does its size calculation.
This was unsound since a panic in a.next_back() would result in the
length not being updated which would then lead to the same element
being revisited in the side-effect preserving code.
