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  1. Cassandra
  2. CASSANDRA-10378

Make skipping more efficient

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
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    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 3.0.0 rc2
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      Following on from the impact of CASSANDRA-10322, we can improve the efficiency of our calls to skipping methods. CASSANDRA-10326 is showing our performance to be in-and-around the same ballpark except for seeks into the middle of a large partition, which suggests (possibly) that the higher density of data we're storing may simply be resulting in a more significant CPU burden as we have more data to skip over (and since CASSANDRA-10322 improves performance here really dramatically, further improvements are likely to be of similar benefit).

      I propose doing our best to flatten the skipping of macro data items into as few skip invocations as necessary. One way of doing this would be to introduce a special skipUnsignedVInts(int) method, that can efficiently skip a number of unsigned vints. Almost the entire body of a cell and row consist of vints now, each data component with their own special skipX method that invokes readUnsignedVint. This would permit more efficient despatch.

      We could also potentially avoid the construction of a new Columns instance for each row skip, since all we need is an iterator over the columns, and share the temporary space used for storing them, which should further reduce the GC burden for skipping many rows.

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            slebresne Sylvain Lebresne
            benedict Benedict Elliott Smith
            Sylvain Lebresne
            Benedict Elliott Smith
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