AllocRingBuffer: separate size from capacity and remove power of 2 types#114
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| pub struct AllocRingBuffer<T> { | ||
| buf: *mut T, | ||
| size: usize, | ||
| capacity: usize, | ||
| readptr: usize, | ||
| writeptr: usize, | ||
| mode: PhantomData<SIZE>, | ||
| } |
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I added a size field here and removed mode.
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I measure 57% speedup on non-powers of 2 and +1.2% (likely noise) on powers of two. As well as cleaning up the API a ton, I think this is a good change. |
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| @@ -408,22 +296,25 @@ impl<T> AllocRingBuffer<T, PowerOfTwo> { | |||
| /// Panics when capacity is zero or not a power of two | |||
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Docs out of date here (and probably in other places too)
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and THAT'S why we have MIRI in the CI lol |
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Memory leaks are safe, I don't see any issues here |
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`AllocRingBuffer`: separate size from capacity and remove power of 2 types
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I've already talked about this with @jonay2000, but to reiterate: this is just an idea. Your current implementation is fine and feel free to just close this.
This patch removes the distinction between
PowerOfTwoandNonPowerOfTwoand gives a performance improvement of ~30% to the non power of 2 benchmarks, while making powers of 2 10% slower.This is achieved by adding a field called
sizetoAllocRingBuffer. Thesizeis always set to the next power of 2 of thecapacity. The idea is that thecapacityis not the size of the allocation. Instead, an allocation ofsizeis made, so we always mask with the size. But the capacity still forms a hard limit on the length of the buffer.The upsides are:
with_capacitynow always succeeds for a non-zero capacity. This is (in my opinion) a more predictable behaviour and there is less opportunity to accidentally misuse the library.PowerOfTwo,NonPowerOfTwoandRingbufferSizeare all removedwith_capacity_non_power_of_twois removed (because it's now equivalent towith_capacity)AllocRingBufferonly has one type parameter, which also simplifies a lot of method signatures throughout the code base.The downsides are:
2^x + 1then the buffer will be almost twice as big as strictly necessary.Summary of benchmarks:
Full benchmarks (click to open)
Because this diff has a lot of type signature changes I'll add comments to point you to the important bits.