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…ing it The emitter built a second array of the same length as the block's sequences, whose only new content was the four-byte offset code, then read that array back to histogram and to write the bit stream. On a level-1 profile the copy pass was over half of the block-parts stage. `RawSequence` now carries the code itself, filled in place just before the partition it belongs to is encoded, so the history a raw partition restores still governs the partition after it. The histogram, the last-sequence lookup and the bit writer read the same array the matcher filled. Upstream never builds the second array either: `ZSTD_storeSeq` puts `offBase` in the `SeqDef` at match time, and `ZSTD_seqToCodes` writes three small byte arrays rather than copying the sequences. The splitter's estimator still copies, because it prices sub-ranges repeatedly from a scratch history while the array itself has to stay as the matcher left it. It runs only on the levels that probe a split. Output byte-identical over 60 rows: three fixture shapes against ten levels, each run both plain and dictionary-primed. Part of #493.
…slot The wire code went into a fourth field, which widened every sequence in the block from twelve bytes to sixteen. Measured on the i9, that cost more in memory traffic than the copy pass it removed: retired instructions flat to within a tenth of a percent, cycles up 10.3% on the access log at level 5 and 2.3% at level 9 and on decodecorpus at level 5. The found offset has no reader once its code exists, so the code goes into that slot instead of beside it, which is the single slot upstream keeps (`SeqDef::offBase`, written by `ZSTD_storeSeq`). Part of #493.
A call-graph profile of a level-1 encode puts a fifth of the whole frame in the prime, and half of that inside `RangeInclusive::next` and its `lt`: the iterator's exhausted flag, live across every position, on a loop whose body is one hash and one store. The comment above it already recorded that `step_by(1)` had cost a factor of two here for the same reason and had been removed; the inclusive range it was removed in favour of carries the other half of the same problem. A half-open range is what compiles to a counted loop. Part of #493.
The node was four `usize` fields plus an `Option`: forty bytes, twenty kilobytes of node table for a full alphabet, walked several times per block beside a six-kilobyte histogram. Upstream's `nodeElt` is eight bytes, and the difference showed up as eight-byte moves and a forty-byte stride throughout the build's profile. Every field is bounded by the block, so none of them needed a machine word: counts sum to the literal count, symbols index a 256-entry alphabet, node indices reach `2 * 256 - 1`, and a natural code depth is under the leaf count. The root's absent parent is a sentinel index rather than an `Option`, which is what the `Option<usize>` was costing sixteen bytes for. Part of #493.
Deriving each sequence's offset code and histogramming the three code streams were two walks of the same array, and the second read back what the first had just written. On a level-1 profile the derivation pass alone was 6.2% of the frame. They are now one pass, with the offBase policy a const-generic so the strategy branch stays out of the loop body. Upstream splits the two (`ZSTD_seqToCodes` then `HIST_countFast_wksp`) because its codes go to three byte arrays of their own; ours are already in the sequence. The pass moves after the literals section, which reads none of what it writes. The block-split estimator keeps a fill-only version: it prices sub-ranges repeatedly from a scratch history and counts them itself. Part of #493.
Every window slide cleared the hash table and rehashed the whole retained tail, a pass over every byte the window kept. The window slides once per `max_window_size` bytes, so on an 8 MiB access log at level 1 that rehash was a fifth of the encode, in the CLI as much as in the loop harness. Upstream does not rebuild: `ZSTD_reduceIndex` walks the table and subtracts the correction from each stored position. That is a pass over the table's own entries rather than over the window's bytes, and it is also the more faithful state -- the rehash indexed every position, including the ones the matcher's step had skipped and never stored, so the table came out of a slide holding more than it held going in. Output changes on the Fast band of inputs long enough to slide, in both directions and by under a tenth of a percent, and stays smaller than libzstd's on every one. On the 8 MiB access log: --fast=5 2,298,225 -> 2,297,015 bytes, --fast=1 1,926,093 -> 1,924,368, level 1 1,466,481 -> 1,467,858, level 2 1,515,569 -> 1,516,103, against libzstd's 2,300,531 / 1,927,913 / 1,468,937 / 1,517,054. Level 3 and above are a different backend and unchanged; incompressible input is unchanged at every level. Part of #493.
…pass The pass that derives the offset codes rotates the repeat-offset history on every sequence and reads it back on the next one. Held behind the caller's reference it compiled to three stores into the compressor per sequence: the loop also writes through the sequence slice, and the optimiser would not keep the array in registers across that. They are the second, third and fourth hottest instructions in the function's own profile, after the offset code's bit scan. A local copy, written back once when the pass ends, is the same three words moved once instead of once per sequence. Part of #493.
One table a stream serialises the counting loop: consecutive sequences share a code often enough that the increment waits on store-to-load forwarding of the slot the previous one just wrote. Upstream counts into four tables and sums them at the end (`HIST_count_parallel_wksp`), which breaks the chain. Four narrow tables are also smaller than one wide one here. The three sequence alphabets top out at 35, 52 and 31, so four `[u32; 64]` tables a stream come to 3 KiB against the 6 KiB the caller's three `[usize; 256]` arrays already take; the sum writes the caller's arrays at the end and the slots above the alphabets stay zero, as they were. Part of #493.
Four interleaved count tables, upstream's `HIST_count_parallel_wksp` shape, cost more than the store-forwarding chain they remove. Measured on the i9, arms alternating, three rounds, against the commit before them: 8 MiB access log, level 1 +1.14% cycles, +2.26% instructions decodecorpus z000033, level 4 +2.18%, +0.75% decodecorpus z000033, level 5 +1.75%, +0.39% 8 MiB access log, level 9 +1.33%, +0.20% The lane index, the three extra address computations it forces, and the 192-entry fold at the end of each block are more work than the chain is worth at these sequence counts. Upstream pays neither: it counts over prepared byte arrays, where the loop carries nothing else. Recorded so it is not tried again from the same reasoning.
`encode_literal_length` and `encode_match_len` return the symbol together with the extra bits it carries, and the extra-bit width comes from a table indexed by the symbol. A caller that wants only the symbol cannot have that lookup optimised away: its bounds check can panic, which makes it observable. So the counting pass paid two loads, two compares and two branches per sequence for two values it dropped -- they are four of the ten hottest instructions in the function. The symbol alone is now its own function, and the three call sites that want only the symbol call it. The offset code is `ilog2` with no table at all, so those sites take it directly rather than through the triple. Part of #493.
As a hint the split-out symbol functions were left out of line at the histogram's call site, so the pass paid a call per sequence for a table lookup it had stopped doing: retired instructions went up rather than down, by 1.71% at level 1 on the access log. Forcing the inline is what the split was for. Part of #493.
Splitting the symbol out of `encode_literal_length` / `encode_match_len` so the histogram could skip the extra-bit lookup did remove the two bounds checks from its loop -- they are gone from the disassembly -- and still measured worse, twice, on the i9 with arms alternating: 8 MiB access log, level 1 +1.18% cycles, +1.71% instructions decodecorpus z000033, level 4 +2.00%, +0.50% decodecorpus z000033, level 5 +0.69%, +0.26% 8 MiB access log, level 9 +3.12%, +0.16% `inline(always)` on the split helpers changed the instruction count by two in fifteen billion, so they were already inlined and the call-overhead explanation was wrong. Whatever the compiler does differently with the narrower helper costs more than the lookup it saves, and the lookup is not where the loop's time goes -- the offset code's bit scan is, at four times the share. Recorded so the same reasoning does not produce the same patch again.
The bit-writing loop counted down over indices and read `sequences[i]`, paying a bounds check and the index arithmetic on every sequence. Iterating the slice in reverse is the same order and the same last-sequence exclusion, as a pointer walk. Part of #493.
…e writer The bit writer is a quarter of a level-1 frame and two and a half times libzstd's; a fifth of what it spends goes on re-deriving the three FSE symbols and their extra-bit widths, which the pass that ran a moment earlier already had in hand. Upstream keeps them between the same two passes -- the byte arrays `ZSTD_seqToCodes` writes. The five values are packed into one word a sequence: the two codes at six bits, the offset code at five, and the two extra-bit widths at five, with the offset's width being its own code. The derivation pass writes it through the buffer's spare capacity, so the store costs no capacity test and no zeroing pass, and the writer reads one word instead of two bounds-checked table lookups, a bit scan and the branches that pick between the small-value tables and the logarithmic form. Part of #493.
The unchecked add returned early on a zero width, to keep a full accumulator from shifting a `u64` by 64. That is a branch on every call and there are six a sequence in the FSE writer, which is a quarter of a level-1 frame. Upstream's `BIT_addBitsFast` has no such branch: it keeps `bitPos` strictly under 64 and shifts unconditionally. Masking the shift count says the same thing without the branch, and costs nothing to say -- x86 and AArch64 shift instructions mask the count themselves. The one case where the mask changes the arithmetic is the case the early return existed for, and there the caller's own precondition forces the value to zero, so the accumulator takes nothing either way. Part of #493.
… sequence The table selector needs the highest code with a non-zero count in each stream. It was carried as a running maximum through the counting loop -- three compares a sequence -- because deriving it afterwards meant a reverse scan of all 256 slots, which is the dominant cost on a small frame. The scan does not have to be 256 slots. The format's three sequence alphabets end at 35, 52 and 31, so nothing above 63 is ever counted, and 64 slots a stream a block is cheaper than three compares a sequence at any block worth encoding. The bound is asserted in debug builds against the counts themselves. Part of #493.
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…togram Two defects this branch introduced, each with the regression test that catches it. The per-sequence code buffer is retained in the block scratch across blocks, like every other buffer there, but it was left out of `retained_heap_size`. A context therefore under-reported itself through `ZSTD_sizeof_CCtx` by four bytes per sequence of retained capacity, which is exactly the number a caller budgeting memory is given. The tree node's count narrowed from a machine word to a `u32`, which the encoder's own inputs cannot overflow — a literals section is at most 128 KiB. The entry points are public, though, and a histogram that does not fit truncated on the way into a leaf, overflowed at the first merge that crossed the boundary, and at exactly `u32::MAX` produced a leaf indistinguishable from the sentinel marking a node the tree has not built yet, which the merge loop would then take as a child. The bound is now stated where the narrowing happens, folded into the pass that already counts the leaves, so every entry point reaches it. Also adds the estimator/emitter case the parity tests were missing: they ran empty sequence arrays, so nothing compared the two on the path this branch rewrote. The two agree exactly on the literals section and cannot on the sequences one — the FSE cost model prices a symbol at its average width from the normalised probability, as upstream's `ZSTD_fseBitCost` does, where the writer pays what the state trajectory costs. The test asserts what does hold: the same repeat-offset history out of both, and a price within the model's rounding, measured at two bytes for its fixture on every strategy. Output byte-identical over 60 rows: three fixture shapes against ten levels, each run both plain and dictionary-primed.
…wing The previous commit put the bound in the tree builder, reasoning that both entry points reach it so one check covers them by construction. It does not: the cheap path picks its table log first, and that sums the counts in a `usize`, which on a 32-bit target overflows on the very input the bound exists to reject. The i686 job caught it — the panic arrived from the sum rather than from the check, with a different message. The check moves to where the reviewer said it belonged, ahead of anything that reads the histogram, and the builder keeps a `debug_assert` for the invariant it now holds by construction. The total accumulates in a `u64`, so the bound and its message read the same on 32- and 64-bit targets, and saturates rather than wrapping: a total that saturates is far past the bound and refused either way. The alphabet bound moves with it. Only the search path asserted it; the cheap path reached the weight buffers and the node indices — both sized for 256 symbols — without one. Carries the test. Output byte-identical over 60 rows.
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The window slide subtracted the epoch bias and the drop separately from every table entry, though both are fixed for the whole slide and their sum lands at `u32::MAX` at the very most — the epoch keeps the bias under `u32::MAX - 2^31` and the drop is a length inside a history capped at `2 * max_window_size`. Summed once before the loop, it is one saturating subtraction a slot instead of two, on a loop that runs once per table entry. The bound is asserted rather than assumed: a wrap there would not fail, it would quietly resurrect dropped positions. The gated Huffman build validated the histogram and then delegated to `build_from_counts`, which validated it again — a second walk on every searched build, including each block-split candidate. Only the branch that does not delegate needs the check. Also adds the harness the window-slide question was settled with. Sliding the table's indices costs a pass over its entries where rebuilding costs a pass over the window's bytes, so the choice between them would matter if a table could be much larger than the window it indexes. It cannot, and the reasoning is now recorded at `drain_real_prefix`: a frame without a dictionary caps `hash_log` at `window_log + 1`, and a dictionary frame takes its table width from the dictionary's own cParams. Measured over `windowLog` 10 to 16 with `hashLog` pinned at 20: identical time without a dictionary, up to twice as fast with one, same output bytes on every row. Output byte-identical over 60 rows.
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Require a dictionary for the oversized-table benchmark.
Without dict_path, the 4 MiB default frame caps hash_log=20 to window_log + 1 (11). The run therefore allocates a 2^11 table instead of the intended 2^20 table. Require a dictionary path or provide a built-in dictionary large enough to preserve the oversized-table configuration.
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Level 1 on real data was the widest gap on the encoder, and #493 filed it as an
entropy-stage problem. Part of it was. The largest single cost turned out to be
somewhere the issue did not look: every window slide cleared the hash table and
rehashed the whole retained tail — a pass over every byte the window kept, once
per
max_window_sizebytes.On the 8 MiB access log at level 1 the CLI goes from 1.82x libzstd to 1.42x;
--fast=1from 1.95x to 1.50x; 2 MiB of incompressible input from 1.52x to0.57x, which we now win. In the loop harness at level 1: 6.19 G cycles ->
4.72 G against libzstd's 2.91 G, so 2.13x -> 1.62x.
What landed, biggest first
The window slide rebuilt the table. Upstream's
ZSTD_reduceIndexsubtractsthe correction from each stored position; a pass over the table rather than
over the window's bytes. Level 1 on the access log: -11.6% cycles, -18.8%
instructions. It also leaves the table holding what it held going in — the
rehash indexed positions the matcher's step had skipped and never stored.
The dense prime loop was a
RangeInclusive. A call-graph profile put 12% ofa level-1 encode inside its
nextandlt— the exhausted flag, live across aloop whose body is one hash and one store. The comment above it already
recorded that
step_by(1)had cost a factor of two there for the same reason;the inclusive range it was replaced with carried the other half. Half-open
range: -7.8% cycles, -14.3% instructions at level 1, and -42% instructions
on incompressible input, where the prime was most of the frame.
The second sequence array is gone. The emitter copied every sequence into a
second array for the sake of one field. The code now goes into the slot the
found offset occupied, which has no reader once its code exists — upstream's
single
SeqDef::offBase. -2.4% at level 1.Deriving the offset codes and counting them are one pass, not two walks of
the same array where the second read back what the first wrote. -3.3% at level 1.
The repeat-offset history stays in registers across that pass. Behind the
caller's reference it was three stores into the compressor per sequence,
because the loop also writes through the sequence slice. -2.5%.
The codes cross to the writer instead of being re-derived, packed into one
word: two codes at six bits, the offset code at five, two extra-bit widths at
five. This is #493's lead 2, and upstream's
ZSTD_seqToCodesshape. -0.2 to-3.4% across the grid, neutral at level 1 where the array traffic is largest.
The unchecked bit add lost its zero-width branch — six calls a sequence in
a writer that is a quarter of the frame. A masked shift says the same thing and
costs nothing to say. -1.2% at level 1, instructions down everywhere.
The highest sequence code comes from a 64-slot scan a block, not three
compares a sequence. The three alphabets end at 35, 52 and 31, so nothing above
63 is ever counted. -1.4% at level 1.
HuffNodeis 12 bytes, not 40. Fourusizefields plus anOptionmadethe node table twenty kilobytes for a full alphabet, walked several times a
block beside a six-kilobyte histogram; upstream's
nodeEltis eight bytes.Every field is bounded by the block, and the entry points now say so: they are
public, so a histogram whose counts do not fit a node is refused before
anything reads it rather than truncated into a leaf. Ahead of everything,
because the cheap path sums the counts to pick a table log, and on a 32-bit
target that overflows before the tree is ever built. Kept on its instruction
count — the clock was ambiguous.
Measurement
i9, prebuilt arms alternating in one session,
perf stat -r 5, two passes,against zstd 1.5.7 on the same machine. The grid is every level from
--fast=5to 19 against five fixture shapes — decodecorpus with and without adictionary, an 8 MiB access log, 2 MiB of incompressible bytes, and a 10 KiB
random block with a dictionary — 110 rows in all. Median -0.81% cycles,
87 rows of 110 negative. A representative slice:
Dictionary rows through the harness that prepares a CDict once and reuses the
context, so no process start is in the measurement:
Output
Byte-identical on 105 of the 110 rows. The five that move are the Fast band of
the access log, the only fixture here long enough for the window to slide: the
change moves them in both directions and by under a seventh of a percent, and
they stay smaller than libzstd's.
--fast=52,298,225 -> 2,297,015 bytes,--fast=32,131,861 -> 2,129,095,--fast=11,926,093 -> 1,924,368, level 11,466,481 -> 1,467,858, level 2 1,515,569 -> 1,516,103, against libzstd's
2,300,531 / 2,133,375 / 1,927,913 / 1,468,937 / 1,517,054. Level 3 and above are
a different backend and unchanged, and so is every other fixture at every
level.
Four dead ends, measured, with their numbers in the commits
sixteen: +10.3% cycles at level 5, instructions flat. The copy was never
the cost, the width was.
HIST_count_parallel_wkspshape:+0.2 to +2.3% instructions, +1.1 to +2.2% cycles. The lane index and the fold
cost more than the store-forwarding chain they break.
encode_literal_lengthso the histogram skipsthe extra-bit lookup: the two bounds checks do leave the disassembly and it
still measured +0.16 to +1.71% instructions.
inline(always)on those split helpers, which changed the instruction countby two in fifteen billion — they were already inlined and the call-overhead
explanation was wrong.
On the rows that moved without work
Several rows move by one to four percent with retired instructions flat or
DOWN, in both directions, and the direction depends on which binary the row
was measured in. The widest one in this grid is the access log at level 10,
which the CLI puts at +4.3% and the loop harness at -2.0% — the same row, the
same input, instructions down in both (2,039.1 M -> 2,033.9 M in the CLI,
16,039.5 M -> 15,972.6 M in the loop). That is code layout, a property of the
binary rather than of the change. Read the instruction column on those rows.
What is left in #493
Lead 1's second half — the Fast kernel emitting the offBase it already knows.
Measured at 3.18% of the level-1 frame, and it is a serial dependency
rather than instruction count, so only moving the decision into the kernel
removes it. It needs the kernel's repeat-offset stack to become rollback-able
at the three encoder discard sites first, which is #500.
Testing
cargo nextest run -p structured-zstd -F hash,std,dict-builder: 1059 passedcargo nextest run -p ffi-bench -F bench-internals,dict-builder: 64 passedcargo test --doc: 23 passedagainst every level from
--fast=5to 19cargo clippy --all-targetson both CI feature sets, on--no-default-features --features kernel-scalar, and the wasm32 target;cargo fmt --check: cleanten levels, each run both plain and dictionary-primed
Part of #493.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance Improvements
Reliability
Tests