/// A heuristic frequency based detection of rare bytes for substring search. /// /// This detector attempts to pick out two bytes in a needle that are predicted /// to occur least frequently. The purpose is to use these bytes to implement /// fast candidate search using vectorized code. /// /// A set of offsets is only computed for needles of length 2 or greater. /// Smaller needles should be special cased by the substring search algorithm /// in use. (e.g., Use memchr for single byte needles.) /// /// Note that we use `u8` to represent the offsets of the rare bytes in a /// needle to reduce space usage. This means that rare byte occurring after the /// first 255 bytes in a needle will never be used. #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default)] pub(crate) struct RareNeedleBytes { /// The leftmost offset of the rarest byte in the needle, according to /// pre-computed frequency analysis. The "leftmost offset" means that /// rare1i <= i for all i where needle[i] == needle[rare1i]. rare1i: u8, /// The leftmost offset of the second rarest byte in the needle, according /// to pre-computed frequency analysis. The "leftmost offset" means that /// rare2i <= i for all i where needle[i] == needle[rare2i]. /// /// The second rarest byte is used as a type of guard for quickly detecting /// a mismatch if the first byte matches. This is a hedge against /// pathological cases where the pre-computed frequency analysis may be /// off. (But of course, does not prevent *all* pathological cases.) /// /// In general, rare1i != rare2i by construction, although there is no hard /// requirement that they be different. However, since the case of a single /// byte needle is handled specially by memchr itself, rare2i generally /// always should be different from rare1i since it would otherwise be /// ineffective as a guard. rare2i: u8, } impl RareNeedleBytes { /// Create a new pair of rare needle bytes with the given offsets. This is /// only used in tests for generating input data. #[cfg(all(test, feature = "std"))] pub(crate) fn new(rare1i: u8, rare2i: u8) -> RareNeedleBytes { RareNeedleBytes { rare1i, rare2i } } /// Detect the leftmost offsets of the two rarest bytes in the given /// needle. pub(crate) fn forward(needle: &[u8]) -> RareNeedleBytes { if needle.len() <= 1 || needle.len() > core::u8::MAX as usize { // For needles bigger than u8::MAX, our offsets aren't big enough. // (We make our offsets small to reduce stack copying.) // If you have a use case for it, please file an issue. In that // case, we should probably just adjust the routine below to pick // some rare bytes from the first 255 bytes of the needle. // // Also note that for needles of size 0 or 1, they are special // cased in Two-Way. // // TODO: Benchmar this. return RareNeedleBytes { rare1i: 0, rare2i: 0 }; } // Find the rarest two bytes. We make them distinct by construction. let (mut rare1, mut rare1i) = (needle[0], 0); let (mut rare2, mut rare2i) = (needle[1], 1); if rank(rare2) < rank(rare1) { core::mem::swap(&mut rare1, &mut rare2); core::mem::swap(&mut rare1i, &mut rare2i); } for (i, &b) in needle.iter().enumerate().skip(2) { if rank(b) < rank(rare1) { rare2 = rare1; rare2i = rare1i; rare1 = b; rare1i = i as u8; } else if b != rare1 && rank(b) < rank(rare2) { rare2 = b; rare2i = i as u8; } } // While not strictly required, we really don't want these to be // equivalent. If they were, it would reduce the effectiveness of // candidate searching using these rare bytes by increasing the rate of // false positives. assert_ne!(rare1i, rare2i); RareNeedleBytes { rare1i, rare2i } } /// Return the rare bytes in the given needle in the forward direction. /// The needle given must be the same one given to the RareNeedleBytes /// constructor. pub(crate) fn as_rare_bytes(&self, needle: &[u8]) -> (u8, u8) { (needle[self.rare1i as usize], needle[self.rare2i as usize]) } /// Return the rare offsets such that the first offset is always <= to the /// second offset. This is useful when the caller doesn't care whether /// rare1 is rarer than rare2, but just wants to ensure that they are /// ordered with respect to one another. #[cfg(memchr_runtime_simd)] pub(crate) fn as_rare_ordered_usize(&self) -> (usize, usize) { let (rare1i, rare2i) = self.as_rare_ordered_u8(); (rare1i as usize, rare2i as usize) } /// Like as_rare_ordered_usize, but returns the offsets as their native /// u8 values. #[cfg(memchr_runtime_simd)] pub(crate) fn as_rare_ordered_u8(&self) -> (u8, u8) { if self.rare1i <= self.rare2i { (self.rare1i, self.rare2i) } else { (self.rare2i, self.rare1i) } } /// Return the rare offsets as usize values in the order in which they were /// constructed. rare1, for example, is constructed as the "rarer" byte, /// and thus, callers may want to treat it differently from rare2. pub(crate) fn as_rare_usize(&self) -> (usize, usize) { (self.rare1i as usize, self.rare2i as usize) } /// Return the byte frequency rank of each byte. The higher the rank, the /// more frequency the byte is predicted to be. The needle given must be /// the same one given to the RareNeedleBytes constructor. pub(crate) fn as_ranks(&self, needle: &[u8]) -> (usize, usize) { let (b1, b2) = self.as_rare_bytes(needle); (rank(b1), rank(b2)) } } /// Return the heuristical frequency rank of the given byte. A lower rank /// means the byte is believed to occur less frequently. fn rank(b: u8) -> usize { crate::memmem::byte_frequencies::BYTE_FREQUENCIES[b as usize] as usize }