README.md

eytzinger search

A cache-friendly binary search implementation using the Eytzinger layout.

fn main() {
    let data = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15];
    let eyt = EytzingerVec::from_slice(&data);

    let res = eyt.search(8);
    assert_eq!(res, 1); // returns the index of element

    let res = eyt.search(69);
    assert_eq!(res, 0); // returns 0 if not found
}

Prefetching

This implementation makes use of core_intrinsics::prefetch_read_data to work across different targets. Temporal locality is set to 3, indicating maximum temporal locality.

Memory Alignment

AlignedVec holds the #[repr(align(64))] attribute. This ensures the vector is aligned to 64-byte cache lines, optimizing memory access patterns.

Literature

• https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05053