memmap2
v0.9.10 GrowingCross-platform Rust API for memory-mapped file IO
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 40d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (14.4K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
16.5M downloads in the last 30 days (551.4K/day), up 21% from the previous period.
14.4K crates depend on memmap2 — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
Despite being 6+ years old, memmap2 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 34KB, memmap2 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include addr2line, blake3, arrow-ipc, arrow, symbolic-common. When high-quality crates choose memmap2, it's a strong quality signal.
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