Tracking Issue for Vec::split_at_spare_mut (original) (raw)

Feature gate: #![feature(vec_split_at_spare)]

This is a tracking issue for Vec::split_at_spare_mut, which is used as the basis for a few methods internally to give a slice pointing to the initialized portion of the Vec and a slice of MaybeUninit pointing to the uninitialized portion.

Public API

impl<T, A: Allocator> Vec<T, A> { pub fn split_at_spare_mut(&mut self) -> (&mut [T], &mut [MaybeUninit]) {} }

Steps / History

• Implementation: Make Vec::split_at_spare_mut public #81687
• Final commenting period (FCP)
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

• Should we consider changing the name? split_at_spare_mut doesn't seem like an intuitive name
• Should we deprecate Vec::spare_capacity_mut? Any usecase of Vec::spare_capacity_mut can be replaced with Vec::split_at_spare_mut (but not vise-versa):
  edit: spare_capacity_mut has been stabilised now in Stabilize vec_spare_capacity #93016 so deprecating it is probably not an option