### What it does Checks for large size differences between variants on `enum`s. ### Why is this bad? Enum size is bounded by the largest variant. Having one large variant can penalize the memory layout of that enum. ### Known problems This lint obviously cannot take the distribution of variants in your running program into account. It is possible that the smaller variants make up less than 1% of all instances, in which case the overhead is negligible and the boxing is counter-productive. Always measure the change this lint suggests. For types that implement `Copy`, the suggestion to `Box` a variant's data would require removing the trait impl. The types can of course still be `Clone`, but that is worse ergonomically. Depending on the use case it may be possible to store the large data in an auxiliary structure (e.g. Arena or ECS). The lint will ignore the impact of generic types to the type layout by assuming every type parameter is zero-sized. Depending on your use case, this may lead to a false positive. ### Example ``` enum Test { A(i32), B([i32; 8000]), } ``` Use instead: ``` // Possibly better enum Test2 { A(i32), B(Box<[i32; 8000]>), } ```