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Peeking inside a Rust enum
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During a recent Rust Q&A Session on my twitch
channel, someone asked a question that
seemed simple: why are small string types, like SmartString or SmolStr,
the same size as String, but small vec types, like SmallVec, are larger
than Vec?
Now I know I just used the adjective simple, but the truth of the matter is: to understand the question, we're going to need a little bit of background.