name old ns/iter new ns/iter diff ns/iter diff % speedup
iter::bench_cycle_take_ref_sum 927,152 927,194 42 0.00% x 1.00
iter::bench_cycle_take_sum 938,129 603,492 -334,637 -35.67% x 1.55
This is the core method in terms of which the other methods (fold, all, any, find, position, nth, ...) can be implemented, allowing Iterator implementors to get the full goodness of internal iteration by only overriding one method (per direction).
Many of the iterator adaptors will perform faster folds if they forward
to their inner iterator's folds, especially for inner types like `Chain`
which are optimized too. The following types are newly specialized:
| Type | `fold` | `rfold` |
| ----------- | ------ | ------- |
| `Enumerate` | ✓ | ✓ |
| `Filter` | ✓ | ✓ |
| `FilterMap` | ✓ | ✓ |
| `FlatMap` | exists | ✓ |
| `Fuse` | ✓ | ✓ |
| `Inspect` | ✓ | ✓ |
| `Peekable` | ✓ | N/A¹ |
| `Skip` | ✓ | N/A² |
| `SkipWhile` | ✓ | N/A¹ |
¹ not a `DoubleEndedIterator`
² `Skip::next_back` doesn't pull skipped items at all, but this couldn't
be avoided if `Skip::rfold` were to call its inner iterator's `rfold`.
Benchmarks
----------
In the following results, plain `_sum` computes the sum of a million
integers -- note that `sum()` is implemented with `fold()`. The
`_ref_sum` variants do the same on a `by_ref()` iterator, which is
limited to calling `next()` one by one, without specialized `fold`.
The `chain` variants perform the same tests on two iterators chained
together, to show a greater benefit of forwarding `fold` internally.
test iter::bench_enumerate_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 2,216,264 ns/iter (+/- 29,228)
test iter::bench_enumerate_chain_sum ... bench: 922,380 ns/iter (+/- 2,676)
test iter::bench_enumerate_ref_sum ... bench: 476,094 ns/iter (+/- 7,110)
test iter::bench_enumerate_sum ... bench: 476,438 ns/iter (+/- 3,334)
test iter::bench_filter_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 2,266,095 ns/iter (+/- 6,051)
test iter::bench_filter_chain_sum ... bench: 745,594 ns/iter (+/- 2,013)
test iter::bench_filter_ref_sum ... bench: 889,696 ns/iter (+/- 1,188)
test iter::bench_filter_sum ... bench: 667,325 ns/iter (+/- 1,894)
test iter::bench_filter_map_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 2,259,195 ns/iter (+/- 353,440)
test iter::bench_filter_map_chain_sum ... bench: 1,223,280 ns/iter (+/- 1,972)
test iter::bench_filter_map_ref_sum ... bench: 611,607 ns/iter (+/- 2,507)
test iter::bench_filter_map_sum ... bench: 611,610 ns/iter (+/- 472)
test iter::bench_fuse_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 2,246,106 ns/iter (+/- 22,395)
test iter::bench_fuse_chain_sum ... bench: 634,887 ns/iter (+/- 1,341)
test iter::bench_fuse_ref_sum ... bench: 444,816 ns/iter (+/- 1,748)
test iter::bench_fuse_sum ... bench: 316,954 ns/iter (+/- 2,616)
test iter::bench_inspect_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 2,245,431 ns/iter (+/- 21,371)
test iter::bench_inspect_chain_sum ... bench: 631,645 ns/iter (+/- 4,928)
test iter::bench_inspect_ref_sum ... bench: 317,437 ns/iter (+/- 702)
test iter::bench_inspect_sum ... bench: 315,942 ns/iter (+/- 4,320)
test iter::bench_peekable_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 2,243,585 ns/iter (+/- 12,186)
test iter::bench_peekable_chain_sum ... bench: 634,848 ns/iter (+/- 1,712)
test iter::bench_peekable_ref_sum ... bench: 444,808 ns/iter (+/- 480)
test iter::bench_peekable_sum ... bench: 317,133 ns/iter (+/- 3,309)
test iter::bench_skip_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 1,778,734 ns/iter (+/- 2,198)
test iter::bench_skip_chain_sum ... bench: 761,850 ns/iter (+/- 1,645)
test iter::bench_skip_ref_sum ... bench: 478,207 ns/iter (+/- 119,252)
test iter::bench_skip_sum ... bench: 315,614 ns/iter (+/- 3,054)
test iter::bench_skip_while_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 2,486,370 ns/iter (+/- 4,845)
test iter::bench_skip_while_chain_sum ... bench: 633,915 ns/iter (+/- 5,892)
test iter::bench_skip_while_ref_sum ... bench: 666,926 ns/iter (+/- 804)
test iter::bench_skip_while_sum ... bench: 444,405 ns/iter (+/- 571)
`FlatMap` can use internal iteration for its `fold`, which shows a
performance advantage in the new benchmarks:
test iter::bench_flat_map_chain_ref_sum ... bench: 4,354,111 ns/iter (+/- 108,871)
test iter::bench_flat_map_chain_sum ... bench: 468,167 ns/iter (+/- 2,274)
test iter::bench_flat_map_ref_sum ... bench: 449,616 ns/iter (+/- 6,257)
test iter::bench_flat_map_sum ... bench: 348,010 ns/iter (+/- 1,227)
... where the "ref" benches are using `by_ref()` that isn't optimized.
So this change shows a decent advantage on its own, but much more when
combined with a `chain` iterator that also optimizes `fold`.
The benefit of using internal iteration is shown in new benchmarks:
test iter::bench_for_each_chain_fold ... bench: 635,110 ns/iter (+/- 5,135)
test iter::bench_for_each_chain_loop ... bench: 2,249,983 ns/iter (+/- 42,001)
test iter::bench_for_each_chain_ref_fold ... bench: 2,248,061 ns/iter (+/- 51,940)
