package ucharset

v0.2.0 (2026-09-03)

Breaking

• 64-bit only. Builder.build packs two 21-bit endpoints into one int while sorting, so the module now fails at load time on a narrower int rather than returning corrupted sets, and the package is unavailable on 32-bit architectures.
• Lookup.mem_char is gone. It read a byte from 0x80 up as Latin-1, where ascii_table reads the same byte as UTF-8, so the two disagreed on half the table. Use Lookup.mem_uchar on the decoded scalar, or ascii_table on the raw byte.
• Partition.block_of is now Partition.block_of_opt, answering None where it returned -1.
• Partition.of_blocks numbers blocks by least element rather than by position in the list, so Partition.of_set s leads with whichever of s and comp s holds codepoint 0.
• hash mixes the endpoint count, so sets hash differently from v0.1.0. empty and singleton 0 no longer both hash to 0.
• to_string, to_hex_string and to_class_string return one line whatever the set's width. The pp family still breaks at the formatter's margin.
• Invalid_argument messages name Ucharset, not the Charset module that never existed.
• to_list is now to_intervals. It returns runs, not codepoints, so it never paired with of_list; of_intervals is its inverse.
• pp_class and to_class_string escape the non-ASCII whitespace as well (U+00A0, U+1680, U+2000 to U+200A, U+2028, U+2029, U+202F, U+205F, U+3000), which used to print as themselves and read as the separator between members.

Added

• Partition.block_of_opt: which block holds a codepoint, without building a block.
• Lookup.mem_uchar.

Performance

• meet_all refines pairwise by halving instead of sweeping every input at once. Faster as the number of partitions grows, at 8x to 13x the allocation.
• Partition.meet sizes its scratch tables by block count, not segment count.
• subset gallops like disjoint rather than walking of_ linearly.
• mem, subset, equal, compare and Partition.block_of_opt allocate nothing per call.
• min is monomorphic again in the sort and gallop paths.
• xor is one merge over the endpoints rather than union (diff a b) (diff b a), so one array where there were three.
• union_list of exactly two sets calls union directly, as inter_list already did.
• map sizes its accumulator from cardinal, the exact number of pairs it will emit.
• inter_list finds the overlap and the exhausted inputs in one pass rather than two.

Documentation

• The module preamble carries the validation contract again: functions building or updating a set from a raw int raise on a surrogate or an out-of-range value, queries answer for any int.
• of_packed_string documents acceptance as exactly what to_packed_string emits, adjacent intervals included. The encoding itself is unchanged since v0.1.0.
• The Lookup footprint and "branch-free" claims are corrected: only the leaf pool scales with the set, and the index scales with the largest member.
• Doc comments for the values that had none.
• xor no longer claims to be the only operation allocating more than one array, which was false for refine, of_blocks, to_lookup and meet_all.
• meet_all states its cost again: O(S log k) against folding meet at O(S k).
• filter documents that it cannot size its accumulator in advance, and Partition.block that building every block one at a time is what blocks is for.

v0.1.0

• Initial release.