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Which issue does this PR close?

Rationale for this change

Similarly to #7090 we need a benchmark to show efforts to improve validation will actually speed it up.

What changes are included in this PR?

  1. Add ipc_reader benchmark for reading

Are there any user-facing changes?

No, this is only benchmark code

As you can see by the flamegraph, indeed most of the time is spent validating data (UTF8 validation specifically)

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I did want to benchmark using mmap as I think it is an important usecase

Maybe we should contemplate making this IPCBufferDecoder its own real API 🤔

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@tustvold I would be particularly interested in your feedback on this idea (I can file ticket / work with someone to make the code but don't want to do it if you know of some reason not to)

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I see no issue with this, the motivation for the lower level API was to support use-cases where people want to have more control over the IO (as opposed to just punting it to mmap). Having a more ergonomic API for the simple case, seems harmless to me

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The benchmark for mmap shows even more time spent in validating
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@alamb alamb force-pushed the alamb/ipc_read_benchmark branch from 6cd7e5d to 7a6a00a Compare February 8, 2025 16:32
@alamb alamb marked this pull request as ready for review February 8, 2025 16:33
@alamb alamb merged commit d4432c0 into apache:main Feb 10, 2025
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alamb commented Feb 10, 2025

Thank you @tustvold

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