Integer sets as fast, sorted, integer ranges with full set operations
The integers can be any size (u8 to u128) and may be signed (i8 to i128). The set operations include union, intersection, difference, symmetric difference, and complement.
The crate's main struct is RangeSetBlaze, a set of integers. See the documentation for details.
Unlike the standard
BTreeSetandHashSet,RangeSetBlazedoes not store every integer in the set. Rather, it stores sorted & disjoint ranges of integers in a cache-efficientBTreeMap. It differs from other interval libraries -- that we know of -- by offering full set operations and by being optimized for sets of clumpy integers.We can construct a
RangeSetBlazefrom unsorted & redundant integers (or ranges). When the inputs are clumpy, construction will be linear in the number of inputs and set operations will be sped up quadratically.
The crate's main trait is SortedDisjoint. It is implemented by iterators of sorted & disjoint ranges of integers. See the SortedDisjoint documentation for details.
With any
SortedDisjointiterator we can perform set operations in one pass through the ranges and with minimal (constant) memory. It enforces the "sorted & disjoint" constraint at compile time. This trait is inspired by theSortedIteratortrait from the sorted_iter crate.SortedDisjointdiffers from its inspiration by specializing on disjoint integer ranges.
The crate supports no_std, WASM, and embedded projects. Use the command:
cargo add range-set-blaze --features "alloc" --no-default-featuresSee the benchmarks for performance comparisons with other range-related crates.
Generally, for many tasks involving clumpy integers and ranges, RangeSetBlaze is much faster than alternatives.
The benchmarks are in the benches directory. To run them, use cargo bench.
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Nine Rules for Creating Fast, Safe, and Compatible Data Structures in Rust: Lessons from RangeSetBlaze in Towards Data Science. It provides a high-level overview of the crate and its design.
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Nine Rules for Running Rust on the Web and on Embedded: Practical Lessons from Porting range-set-blaze to no_std and WASM in Towards Data Science. It covers porting to "no_std".
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Check AI-Generated Code Perfectly and Automatically My Experience Applying Kani’s Formal Verification to ChatGPT-Suggested Rust Code. Shows how to prove overflow safety.
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Nine Rules to Formally Validate Rust Algorithms with Dafny in Towards Data Science. It shows how to formally validate one of the crate's algorithms.
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Nine Rules for SIMD Acceleration of your Rust Code: General Lessons from Boosting Data Ingestion in the range-set-blaze Crate by 7x in Towards Data Science
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Also see: CHANGELOG
Example 1
Here we take the union (operator “|”) of two RangeSetBlaze's:
use range_set_blaze::RangeSetBlaze;
// a is the set of integers from 100 to 499 (inclusive) and 501 to 1000 (inclusive)
let a = RangeSetBlaze::from_iter([100..=499, 501..=999]);
// b is the set of integers -20 and the range 400 to 599 (inclusive)
let b = RangeSetBlaze::from_iter([-20..=-20, 400..=599]);
// c is the union of a and b, namely -20 and 100 to 999 (inclusive)
let c = a | b;
assert_eq!(c, RangeSetBlaze::from_iter([-20..=-20, 100..=999]));Example 2
In biology, suppose we want to find the intron regions of a gene but we are given only the transcription region and the exon regions.
We create a RangeSetBlaze for the transcription region and a RangeSetBlaze for all the exon regions.
Then we take the difference between the transcription region and exon regions to find the intron regions.
use range_set_blaze::RangeSetBlaze;
let line = "chr15 29370 37380 29370,32358,36715 30817,32561,37380";
// split the line on white space
let mut iter = line.split_whitespace();
let chr = iter.next().unwrap();
// Parse the start and end of the transcription region into a RangeSetBlaze
let trans_start: i32 = iter.next().unwrap().parse().unwrap();
let trans_end: i32 = iter.next().unwrap().parse().unwrap();
let trans = RangeSetBlaze::from_iter([trans_start..=trans_end]);
assert_eq!(trans, RangeSetBlaze::from_iter([29370..=37380]));
// Parse the start and end of the exons into a RangeSetBlaze
let exon_starts = iter.next().unwrap().split(',').map(|s| s.parse::<i32>());
let exon_ends = iter.next().unwrap().split(',').map(|s| s.parse::<i32>());
let exon_ranges = exon_starts
.zip(exon_ends)
.map(|(s, e)| s.unwrap()..=e.unwrap());
let exons = RangeSetBlaze::from_iter(exon_ranges);
assert_eq!(
exons,
RangeSetBlaze::from_iter([29370..=30817, 32358..=32561, 36715..=37380])
);
// Use 'set difference' to find the introns
let intron = trans - exons;
assert_eq!(intron, RangeSetBlaze::from_iter([30818..=32357, 32562..=36714]));
for range in intron.ranges() {
let (start, end) = range.into_inner();
println!("{chr}\t{start}\t{end}");
}
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