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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><meta name="generator" content="rustdoc"><meta name="description" content="Provides direct access to NFA implementations of Aho-Corasick."><title>aho_corasick::nfa - Rust</title><script> if (window.location.protocol !== "file:") document.write(`<link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin href="../../static.files/SourceSerif4-Regular-46f98efaafac5295.ttf.woff2"><link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin href="../../static.files/FiraSans-Regular-018c141bf0843ffd.woff2"><link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin href="../../static.files/FiraSans-Medium-8f9a781e4970d388.woff2"><link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin href="../../static.files/SourceCodePro-Regular-562dcc5011b6de7d.ttf.woff2"><link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin href="../../static.files/SourceCodePro-Semibold-d899c5a5c4aeb14a.ttf.woff2">`)</script><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../static.files/normalize-76eba96aa4d2e634.css"><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../static.files/rustdoc-e935ef01ae1c1829.css"><meta name="rustdoc-vars" data-root-path="../../" data-static-root-path="../../static.files/" data-current-crate="aho_corasick" data-themes="" data-resource-suffix="" data-rustdoc-version="1.78.0 (9b00956e5 2024-04-29)" data-channel="1.78.0" data-search-js="search-42d8da7a6b9792c2.js" data-settings-js="settings-4313503d2e1961c2.js" ><script src="../../static.files/storage-4c98445ec4002617.js"></script><script defer src="../sidebar-items.js"></script><script defer src="../../static.files/main-12cf3b4f4f9dc36d.js"></script><noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../static.files/noscript-04d5337699b92874.css"></noscript><link rel="alternate icon" type="image/png" href="../../static.files/favicon-16x16-8b506e7a72182f1c.png"><link rel="alternate icon" type="image/png" href="../../static.files/favicon-32x32-422f7d1d52889060.png"><link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="../../static.files/favicon-2c020d218678b618.svg"></head><body class="rustdoc mod"><!--[if lte IE 11]><div class="warning">This old browser is unsupported and will most likely display funky things.</div><![endif]--><nav class="mobile-topbar"><button class="sidebar-menu-toggle" title="show sidebar"></button></nav><nav class="sidebar"><div class="sidebar-crate"><h2><a href="../../aho_corasick/index.html">aho_corasick</a><span class="version">1.1.3</span></h2></div><h2 class="location"><a href="#">Module nfa</a></h2><div class="sidebar-elems"><section><ul class="block"><li><a href="#modules">Modules</a></li></ul></section><h2><a href="../index.html">In crate aho_corasick</a></h2></div></nav><div class="sidebar-resizer"></div>
<main><div class="width-limiter"><nav class="sub"><form class="search-form"><span></span><div id="sidebar-button" tabindex="-1"><a href="../../aho_corasick/all.html" title="show sidebar"></a></div><input class="search-input" name="search" aria-label="Run search in the documentation" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" placeholder="Click or press S to search, ? for more options…" type="search"><div id="help-button" tabindex="-1"><a href="../../help.html" title="help">?</a></div><div id="settings-menu" tabindex="-1"><a href="../../settings.html" title="settings"><img width="22" height="22" alt="Change settings" src="../../static.files/wheel-7b819b6101059cd0.svg"></a></div></form></nav><section id="main-content" class="content"><div class="main-heading"><h1>Module <a href="../index.html">aho_corasick</a>::<wbr><a class="mod" href="#">nfa</a><button id="copy-path" title="Copy item path to clipboard"><img src="../../static.files/clipboard-7571035ce49a181d.svg" width="19" height="18" alt="Copy item path"></button></h1><span class="out-of-band"><a class="src" href="../../src/aho_corasick/nfa/mod.rs.html#1-40">source</a> · <button id="toggle-all-docs" title="collapse all docs">[<span>&#x2212;</span>]</button></span></div><details class="toggle top-doc" open><summary class="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><div class="docblock"><p>Provides direct access to NFA implementations of Aho-Corasick.</p>
<p>The principle characteristic of an NFA in this crate is that it may
transition through multiple states per byte of haystack. In Aho-Corasick
parlance, NFAs follow failure transitions during a search. In contrast,
a <a href="../dfa/struct.DFA.html" title="struct aho_corasick::dfa::DFA"><code>DFA</code></a> pre-computes all failure transitions during
compilation at the expense of a much bigger memory footprint.</p>
<p>Currently, there are two NFA implementations provided: noncontiguous and
contiguous. The names reflect their internal representation, and consequently,
the trade offs associated with them:</p>
<ul>
<li>A <a href="noncontiguous/struct.NFA.html" title="struct aho_corasick::nfa::noncontiguous::NFA"><code>noncontiguous::NFA</code></a> uses a separate allocation for every NFA state to
represent its transitions in a sparse format. This is ideal for building an
NFA, since it cheaply permits different states to have a different number of
transitions. A noncontiguous NFA is where the main Aho-Corasick construction
algorithm is implemented. All other Aho-Corasick implementations are built by
first constructing a noncontiguous NFA.</li>
<li>A <a href="contiguous/struct.NFA.html" title="struct aho_corasick::nfa::contiguous::NFA"><code>contiguous::NFA</code></a> is uses a single allocation to represent all states,
while still encoding most states as sparse states but permitting states near
the starting state to have a dense representation. The dense representation
uses more memory, but permits computing transitions during a search more
quickly. By only making the most active states dense (the states near the
starting state), a contiguous NFA better balances memory usage with search
speed. The single contiguous allocation also uses less overhead per state and
enables compression tricks where most states only use 8 bytes of heap memory.</li>
</ul>
<p>When given the choice between these two, you almost always want to pick a
contiguous NFA. It takes only a little longer to build, but both its memory
usage and search speed are typically much better than a noncontiguous NFA. A
noncontiguous NFA is useful when prioritizing build times, or when there are
so many patterns that a contiguous NFA could not be built. (Currently, because
of both memory and search speed improvements, a contiguous NFA has a smaller
internal limit on the total number of NFA states it can represent. But you
would likely need to have hundreds of thousands or even millions of patterns
before you hit this limit.)</p>
</div></details><h2 id="modules" class="section-header">Modules<a href="#modules" class="anchor">§</a></h2><ul class="item-table"><li><div class="item-name"><a class="mod" href="contiguous/index.html" title="mod aho_corasick::nfa::contiguous">contiguous</a></div><div class="desc docblock-short">Provides a contiguous NFA implementation of Aho-Corasick.</div></li><li><div class="item-name"><a class="mod" href="noncontiguous/index.html" title="mod aho_corasick::nfa::noncontiguous">noncontiguous</a></div><div class="desc docblock-short">Provides a noncontiguous NFA implementation of Aho-Corasick.</div></li></ul></section></div></main></body></html>