RapidEnum

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RapidEnum is a Source Generator that provides fast-running enum utilities for C#/.NET. It is faster than the .NET API and achieves zero allocation for all methods.

Package - RapidEnum

It performed better than .NET API. It is also faster than FastEnum v1.8.0. For more information on performance comparisons, see this.

RapidEnum is heavily influenced by FastEnum. API is very similar to FastEnum. Thanks to xin9le for creating a great library!

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
  • NuGet
  • Unity
    • asmdef settings
• How to use
  • Basic usage
  • How to use it for any enum
• Performance comparison

Requirements

• .NET Standard2.0 or newer
• Unity 2022.3.12f1 or newer

Installation

NuGet

$ dotnet add package RapidEnum

nuget.org : RapidEnum

Unity

Add the following git URL from the Package Manager

https://github.com/hanachiru/RapidEnum.git?path=/RapidEnum.Unity/Packages/com.hanachiru.rapidenum

asmdef settings

If you have not created .asmdef, the following is not relevant.

If you have Override References in the .asmdef switched on, you need to add RapidEnum.Core.dll to the Assembly References.

How to use

Basic usage

Attaching [RapidEnum] to the target enum generates an enum utility class. Note that this is only valid for public or internal enum.

[RapidEnum]
public enum Weather
{
    Sun,
    Cloud,
    Rain,
    Snow
}

The Enum name + EnumExtensions class defines the relevant methods.

// Sun,Cloud,Rain,Snow
IReadOnlyList<Weather> values = WeatherEnumExtensions.GetValues();

// Sun,Cloud,Rain,Snow
IReadOnlyList<string> names = WeatherEnumExtensions.GetNames();

// Rain
string name = WeatherEnumExtensions.GetName(Weather.Rain);

// Cloud
string str = Weather.Cloud.ToStringFast();

// True
bool defined = WeatherEnumExtensions.IsDefined("Sun");

// Sun
Weather parse = WeatherEnumExtensions.Parse("Sun");

// True
// Sun
bool tryParse = WeatherEnumExtensions.TryParse("Sun", out Weather value);

How to use it for any enum

The [RapidEnumWithType] can be used to generate utility classes for any enum.

For static partial class that are public or internal, give them a [RapidEnumWithType] with the target enum as an argument. The class name can be any string, but Enum name + EnumExtensions is easier to understand.

// System.DateTimeKind has Unspecified, Utc, Local
[RapidEnumWithType(typeof(DateTimeKind))]
public static partial class DateTimeKindEnumExtensions
{
}

There is no performance difference compared to using [RapidEnum]. Use [RapidEnumWithType] if [RapidEnum] cannot be given, such as an enum provided by a third-party library.

// Unspecified,Utc,Local
IReadOnlyList<DateTimeKind> values = DateTimeKindEnumExtensions.GetValues();

// Unspecified,Utc,Local
IReadOnlyList<string> names = DateTimeKindEnumExtensions.GetNames();

// Local
string name = DateTimeKindEnumExtensions.GetName(DateTimeKind.Local);

// Local
string str = DateTimeKind.Local.ToStringFast();

// True
bool defined = DateTimeKindEnumExtensions.IsDefined("Local");

// Local
DateTimeKind parse = DateTimeKindEnumExtensions.Parse("Local");

// True
// Local
bool tryParse = DateTimeKindEnumExtensions.TryParse("Local", out DateTimeKind value);

Get Name and Value as a pair

Use the GetMembers and GetMember methods if you want to get the Name and Value of enum in pairs.

WeatherEnumExtensions.Member member = WeatherEnumExtensions.GetMember(Weather.Rain);
var (name, value) = member;

foreach (WeatherEnumExtensions.Member item in WeatherEnumExtensions.GetMembers())
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Name : {item.Name}, Value : {item.Value}");
}

Performance comparison

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Median	Gen0	Allocated
RapidEnum_GetValues	0.0042 ns	0.0059 ns	0.0052 ns	0.0028 ns	-	-
FastEnum_GetValues	0.0083 ns	0.0086 ns	0.0081 ns	0.0055 ns	-	-
NET_GetValues	64.4620 ns	0.9908 ns	0.9268 ns	64.2767 ns	0.0048	40 B
RapidEnum_GetNames	0.0006 ns	0.0017 ns	0.0015 ns	0.0000 ns	-	-
FastEnum_GetNames	0.0025 ns	0.0031 ns	0.0028 ns	0.0012 ns	-	-
NET_GetNames	12.3820 ns	0.1086 ns	0.1016 ns	12.4076 ns	0.0067	56 B
RapidEnum_GetName	0.0069 ns	0.0085 ns	0.0071 ns	0.0039 ns	-	-
FastEnum_GetName	0.2530 ns	0.0070 ns	0.0065 ns	0.2527 ns	-	-
NET_GetName	15.9190 ns	0.0524 ns	0.0490 ns	15.9046 ns	0.0029	24 B
RapidEnum_ToString	0.0103 ns	0.0049 ns	0.0046 ns	0.0110 ns	-	-
FastEnum_ToString	0.4844 ns	0.0062 ns	0.0052 ns	0.4845 ns	-	-
NET_ToString	6.1700 ns	0.0451 ns	0.0376 ns	6.1493 ns	0.0029	24 B
RapidEnum_IsDefines	0.0026 ns	0.0036 ns	0.0034 ns	0.0000 ns	-	-
FastEnum_IsDefines	4.6724 ns	0.0583 ns	0.0545 ns	4.6434 ns	-	-
NET_IsDefines	14.5923 ns	0.0355 ns	0.0332 ns	14.5996 ns	-	-
RapidEnum_Parse	0.9258 ns	0.0161 ns	0.0150 ns	0.9240 ns	-	-
FastEnum_Parse	4.6223 ns	0.0082 ns	0.0073 ns	4.6192 ns	-	-
NET_Parse	8.8707 ns	0.0965 ns	0.0903 ns	8.8293 ns	-	-
RapidEnum_TryParse	0.7633 ns	0.0097 ns	0.0090 ns	0.7657 ns	-	-
FastEnum_TryParse	4.6869 ns	0.0254 ns	0.0212 ns	4.6852 ns	-	-
NET_TryParse	8.8433 ns	0.0609 ns	0.0569 ns	8.8268 ns	-	-

Benchmark Source

BenchmarkDotNet v0.14.0, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224) [Darwin 23.4.0]
Apple M2 Pro, 1 CPU, 12 logical and 12 physical cores
.NET SDK 8.0.303
[Host]     : .NET 8.0.7 (8.0.724.31311), Arm64 RyuJIT AdvSIMD
DefaultJob : .NET 8.0.7 (8.0.724.31311), Arm64 RyuJIT AdvSIMD