From 7bdb59e386b93c37cdc2c2b88fc2945ab0e64d57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Santo Cariotti <santo@dcariotti.me>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:18:23 +0200
Subject: Increase tree's speed avoiding to store data in a vec

---
 src/node.rs | 16 +++-------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/node.rs')

diff --git a/src/node.rs b/src/node.rs
index e7e6b0f..e784a69 100644
--- a/src/node.rs
+++ b/src/node.rs
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ pub struct Node {
     hash: String,
     /// Type of the node: leaf or internal.
     status: NodeStatus,
-    /// Data in bytes.
-    data: Vec<u8>,
 }
 
 impl Node {
@@ -53,11 +51,9 @@ impl Node {
     /// # Arguments
     ///
     /// * `hasher` - A reference to a hashing strategy.
-    /// * `data` - The data to be hashed and stored as a leaf.
-    pub fn new_leaf(data: &[u8], hash: String) -> Self {
+    pub fn new_leaf(hash: String) -> Self {
         Self {
             hash,
-            data: data.to_vec(),
             status: NodeStatus::Leaf,
         }
     }
@@ -66,17 +62,16 @@ impl Node {
     ///
     /// # Arguments
     ///
-    /// * `hasher` - A reference to a hashing strategy.
+    /// * `hash` - An hash value for the following node.
     /// * `left` - Left child node.
     /// * `right` - Right child node.
     ///
     /// # Behavior
     ///
     /// The internal node hash is computed as the hash of the concatenated children's hashes.
-    pub fn new_internal(data: &[u8], hash: String, left: Node, right: Node) -> Self {
+    pub fn new_internal(hash: String, left: Node, right: Node) -> Self {
         Self {
             hash,
-            data: data.to_vec(),
             status: NodeStatus::Internal(Box::new(left), Box::new(right)),
         }
     }
@@ -86,11 +81,6 @@ impl Node {
         &self.hash
     }
 
-    /// Returns the data value in bytes format.
-    pub fn data(&self) -> &[u8] {
-        &self.data
-    }
-
     /// Returns a reference to the node's type (leaf or internal).
     pub fn status(&self) -> &NodeStatus {
         &self.status
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