Add `rayon` and `crossbeam-channel` dependencies to support concurrent execution. Replace the synchronous, mutex-protected closure pattern with a channel-based producer-consumer approach using `std::thread::scope`. This decouples unitig iteration from processing, eliminating lock contention and `Mutex` overhead while enabling parallel workloads.
Add the `tracing` crate to `obidebruinj`, `obisys`, and resolve it in `Cargo.lock`. Replace `eprintln!` statements with structured `debug!` and `info!` macros. Introduce a `TracedBar` wrapper for progress bars and enhance the `Stage` lifecycle to emit structured events for timing, memory metrics, and swap warnings. Add a progress spinner for unitig degree computation. Extend `PersistentBitMatrix` with columnar bit-vector operations and parallel distance methods, enabling uniform distance computations across all storage layouts while replacing previous panics with dimension-based fallbacks.
Integrate rayon to enable parallel processing of k-mer partitions and degree computation. Replace Cell with AtomicU8 to ensure thread-safe node state management, and add a merge method for combining disjoint graphs. Additionally, introduce progress tracking utilities and a test-utils feature flag for development dependencies.
Centralize k-mer and minimizer configuration using a thread-safe global module, and replace manual bit-packing with a memory-efficient `PackedSeq` type. Refactor core sequence and k-mer types to use compile-time length enforcement and centralized hashing. Introduce a new De Bruijn graph implementation with compact node encoding and traversal iterators. Update I/O, partitioning, and builder modules to align with the new architecture, and add the `xxhash-rust` dependency.
Eric Coissac