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A dynamically-allocated, fixed-size, buffer containing a BitSlice
region.
You can read the standard library’s alloc::boxed module documentation
here.
This module defines the BitBox buffer, and all of its associated support
code.
BitBox is equivalent to Box<[bool]>, in its operation and in its
relationship to the BitSlice and BitVec types. Most of the interesting
work to be done on a bit-sequence is implemented in BitSlice, to which
BitBox dereferences, and the box container itself only exists to maintain
wonership and provide some specializations that cannot safely be done on
BitSlice alone.
There is almost never a reason to use this type, as it is a mixture of
BitArray’s fixed width and BitVec’s heap allocation. You should only use
it when you have a bit-sequence whose width is either unknowable at compile-time
or inexpressable in BitArray, and are constructing the sequence in a BitVec
before freezing it.
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Structs
A frozen heap-allocated buffer of individual bits.