feat: teach ALPArray to store validity only in the encoded array#2216
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The patches are now always non-nullable. This required PrimitiveArray::patch to gracefully handle non-nullable patches when the array is nullable. I modified the benchmarks to include patch manipulation time, but notice that the test data has no patches. The benchmarks measure the overhead of `is_valid`. If we had test data where the invalid positions contained exceptional values, I would expect a modest improvement in both decompression and compression time.
This reverts commit f26139f.
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Calling validity_mask here triggers a "canonicalization" of the validity buffer. You should instead use patches.values().all_valid()? which should short-circuit if possible
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Indeed cruft. Removed.
| // exceptional_positions may contain exceptions at invalid positions (which contain garbage | ||
| // data). We remove invalid exceptional positions in order to keep the Patches small. | ||
| let (valid_exceptional_positions, valid_exceptional_values): (Buffer<u64>, Buffer<T>) = | ||
| if n_valid == 0 { |
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I think you can do match validity.boolean_buffer() to switch over alltrue / allfalse and a buffer
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| #[allow(clippy::approx_constant)] // Clippy objects to 2.718, an approximation of e, the base of the natural logarithm. |
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This PR trims invalid values from the patches and makes the patches validity either AllValid (for nullable arrays) or NonNullable.
This microbenchmark doesn't reveal any clear improvements or degradations. It seems to me mostly noise. In theory, this change should make decompression a bit faster because validity is one place, but my primary goal here is to make ALP array simpler: validity is in one place, the encoded array.
Benchmarks on latest commit:
parameter is: (number of elements, fraction patched, fraction valid).
Any ratio greater than 1.1 or less than 0.9 has a
***Benchmarks before reverting to develop's chunking code
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[1] Seems like this PR is about the same except for compressing really large f64 arrays. The PR that introduced chunking, #924, reported substantially larger reductions (~5ms of 29ms) in time than this increase of ~1ms (of 17ms).