rust-lang/rust-clippy

Lint for .clone().into_boxed_str()

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#15.951 aperta il 25 ott 2025

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Descrizione

What it does

Suggest turning s.clone().into_boxed_str() into Box::from(s.as_str()).

Possibly could be grouped together with other inefficient string conversions.

Advantage

Removes a call to __rust_realloc

Drawbacks

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Example

fn foo(s: &String) -> Box<str> {
    s.clone().into_boxed_str()
}

Could be written as:

fn foo(s: &String) -> Box<str> {
    Box::from(s.as_str())
}

Comparison with existing lints

redundant_clone generally doesn't consider the semantics of the

Additional Context

A GitHub search shows this unoptimal pattern is actually used fairly often.

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