Module util

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§Utility modules to handle common recurring Advent of Code patterns.

ansi: ANSI escape codes
bitset: Add biterator method that treats an integer as a set, iterating over each element where the respective bit is set. For example 1101 would return 0, 2 and 3.
grid: Fast 2-dimensional Grid backed by a single vec, designed to work with Point.
hash: Provides fast HashSet and HashMap implementations based on a simplified implementation of the fast Rust C hash algorithm also used by Firefox.
heap: Min heap more suitable for algorithms such as Dijkstra and A* than Rust’s default max heap. Splits the sorting key and value, so that you can order items without having to implement Ord on the value type.
integer: Combines common operators and constants 0, 1 and 10 to enable generic methods on integer types.
iter: Add a chunk method to Iterator that duplicates the functionality of the unstable array_chunks method.
math: Extended mathematical operations.
md5: MD5 hash algorithm
parse: Extracts and parses signed and unsigned integers from surrounding text and whitespace.
point: Comprehensive 2-dimensional point implementation, designed to work together with Grid.
slice: Extension methods for slices.
thread: Utility methods to spawn a number of scoped threads equal to the number of cores on the machine. Unlike normal threads, scoped threads can borrow data from their environment.