Store hex digits in a stack-allocated buffer

crates/ra_syntax/src/utils.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 use crate::{File, SyntaxKind, SyntaxNodeRef, WalkEvent};
 use std::fmt::Write;
+use std::ops::Deref;
+use std::str;
 
 /// Parse a file and create a string representation of the resulting parse tree.
 pub fn dump_tree(syntax: SyntaxNodeRef) -> String {
@@ -78,3 +80,38 @@ pub(crate) fn validate_block_structure(root: SyntaxNodeRef) {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct MutAsciiString<'a> {
+    buf: &'a mut [u8],
+    len: usize,
+}
+
+impl<'a> MutAsciiString<'a> {
+    pub fn new(buf: &'a mut [u8]) -> MutAsciiString<'a> {
+        MutAsciiString { buf, len: 0 }
+    }
+
+    pub fn as_str(&self) -> &str {
+        str::from_utf8(&self.buf[..self.len]).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.len
+    }
+
+    pub fn push(&mut self, c: char) {
+        assert!(self.len() < self.buf.len());
+        assert!(c.is_ascii());
+
+        self.buf[self.len] = c as u8;
+        self.len += 1;
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a> Deref for MutAsciiString<'a> {
+    type Target = str;
+    fn deref(&self) -> &str {
+        self.as_str()
+    }
+}