// Copyright (c) 2026 Karl Gaissmaier // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT // Package bart provides high-performance Balanced Routing Tables (BART) // for fast IP-to-CIDR lookups on IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. // // BART offers three table variants optimized for different use cases: // // - Lite: Memory-optimized with popcount-compressed sparse arrays // - Table: Full-featured with popcount-compressed sparse arrays // - Fast: Speed-optimized with additional rank caching // // The implementation is based on Knuth's ART algorithm with novel // optimizations for memory efficiency and lookup speed. // // `Table` and `Lite` use popcount compression for memory efficiency, while // `Fast` trades additional memory and slower updates for maximum lookup // speed: a child-rank cache is maintained on every insert/delete, so // lookups avoid popcount but updates pay the caching cost. // // BART excels at efficient set operations on routing tables including Union, // Overlaps, Equal, Subnets, and Supernets with optimal complexity, making it // ideal for large-scale IP prefix matching in ACLs, RIBs, FIBs, firewalls, // and routers. // // All variants also support copy-on-write persistence. // // For complex or pointer value types, you must provide custom deep cloning // using Go's structural typing, implementing the following method on your // value type V: // // func (v V) Clone() V // // For custom Equality implement the following method on your value type V: // // func (v V) Equal(other V) bool // // The bart package detects the interface satisfaction automatically at // runtime using type assertions. package bart import ( "net/netip" "github.com/gaissmai/bart/internal/nodes" // inlining hint, see also the TestInlineBitSet256Functions. // without this silent import the BitSet256 functions are not inlined _ "github.com/gaissmai/bart/internal/bitset" ) // stridePath is required in many places in the bart package and in // internal/nodes. Aliased to keep the code readable. type stridePath = nodes.StridePath // DumpListNode contains CIDR, Value and Subnets, representing the trie // in a sorted, recursive representation, especially useful for serialization. type DumpListNode[V any] struct { CIDR netip.Prefix `json:"cidr"` Value V `json:"value"` Subnets []DumpListNode[V] `json:"subnets,omitempty"` }