A library which provides the means to generate a large lookup table (about 124MB), which can be dumped to and loaded from a file. 5, 6 and 7 card poker hands can be evaluated using this table with impressive throughput.
The crate is called pokerlookup and you can depend on it via cargo:
ini
[dependencies.pokerlookup]
git = "https://github.com/th4t/pokerlookup-rs.git"
Before running tests, execute the following command from the project root directory, to generate a HandRank.dat file. This will take a while. Not too long.
```
$ cargo build --release $ ./target/release/generate
``` Arguably, you could also try cargo run, but this will be painfully slow due to the debug build mode. Only if you want to wait a good while.
Afterwards the tests should run through successfully, evaluating all possible 5-card poker hands
$ cargo test
The md5 sum of the generated HandRanks.dat file should be 5003cf3e6d5c9b8ee77094e168bfe73f.
As the original cpp code for this was licensed under GPL, this crate carries a similar license.