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remove `impl<T: Clone, const N: usize> From<&mut [T]> for SmallVec<T, N> `

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
90/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend

Research direction

Open conversions.rs and locate the impl From<&mut [T]> for SmallVec<T, N>. Review the surrounding conversions and run the project's tests; done means the redundant implementation is removed with no behavior changes and the tests still pass.

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Description

good first issue help wanted r-refactor

this implementation on conversions.rs is unnecessary since automatic deref coercion on mutable references allows using From::<&[T]>::from(&mut [T]), thus making this implementation redundant

no behavior changes

Dominant language
Rust
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