rudb_encoding/bitpack.rs
1//! Bit packing in the FastLanes unified transposed layout.
2//!
3//! Packing N values of a fixed bit width into a dense buffer is the bottom of every integer
4//! encoding in `spec/06-compression.md` section 6.2. FOR subtracts a base and packs. DELTA
5//! differences and packs. DICT produces codes and packs them. So this is the one kernel that runs
6//! over more bytes than anything else in the system, and the layout it uses decides whether the
7//! decoder can be data parallel or has to walk a dependency chain.
8//!
9//! The obvious layout writes value 0 in the low bits of the first word, value 1 above it, and so
10//! on. Unpacking that requires knowing where the previous value ended, which is a sequential
11//! dependency, and a SIMD implementation has to fight it with shuffles that differ per width and
12//! per instruction set. FastLanes takes the other road. The 1024 values of a vector are seen as a
13//! matrix of `T` rows by `1024 / T` lanes, where `T` is the bit width of the type, and the packing
14//! runs down the rows of every lane at once. Every lane has the same bit schedule, so unpacking
15//! lane 0 and lane 31 is the same instruction sequence with no cross lane data movement at all.
16//! That is what makes one scalar reference implementation and one AVX-512 implementation and one
17//! NEON implementation agree bit for bit, and it is why the vector size is 1024 rather than a
18//! rounder number.
19//!
20//! The price is that the values come out permuted within the vector. Row `r` lane `l` is not the
21//! `r * lanes + l`th value of the input. Section 6.2 says why that is acceptable: an operator
22//! working inside one vector does not care what order the rows are in, so the permutation only
23//! has to be undone when a vector is materialized in row order. [`transpose`] and [`untranspose`]
24//! are that step, and they are deliberately separate from [`pack_transposed`] and
25//! [`unpack_transposed`] so that the engine can keep data permuted through a whole pipeline and
26//! pay for the reordering once at the end rather than twice per operator.
27//!
28//! There is a second layout in here, in [`pack_tail`], and it is the sequential one this module
29//! opens by arguing against. The transposed layout is all or nothing: a value lives at a row and a
30//! lane, the lanes are interleaved through the whole buffer, and no prefix of a packed unit holds a
31//! prefix of the values. So a unit holding 3 values costs exactly what a unit holding 1024 costs,
32//! and a cascade is full of short arrays. A five entry dictionary, a run length array, an exception
33//! list. Storing three numbers in 5 KB is not a compressed format. The tail packer handles anything
34//! shorter than a unit, it has the dependency chain the transposed layout exists to avoid, and that
35//! is affordable there and nowhere else, because a tail is at most 1023 values and is decoded once
36//! while a full unit is on the hot path of every scan in the system.
37//!
38//! The permutation itself is a fixed shuffle of the eight bit groups of a row index, in the order
39//! 0, 4, 2, 6, 1, 5, 3, 7. That order is not arbitrary. It is the one that makes an eight way
40//! interleave of the rows land back in sequence under the pairwise unpacking pattern the paper
41//! uses, and the important property for us is only that it is a bijection that both directions
42//! agree on.
43
44use rudb_common::{Error, Result};
45
46/// How many values a packed unit holds. One vector, per `spec/06-compression.md` section 6.2.
47pub const VALUES: usize = 1024;
48
49/// The interleaving order of the eight row groups. See the module documentation.
50const ORDER: [usize; 8] = [0, 4, 2, 6, 1, 5, 3, 7];
51
52mod sealed {
53 pub trait Sealed {}
54 impl Sealed for u8 {}
55 impl Sealed for u16 {}
56 impl Sealed for u32 {}
57 impl Sealed for u64 {}
58}
59
60/// An unsigned integer type that can be bit packed.
61///
62/// Sealed, because the layout constants are only correct for the four widths that divide 1024 into
63/// a whole number of lanes, and because every kernel here does its arithmetic in `u64` and relies
64/// on every implementor fitting in one.
65pub trait Packable: sealed::Sealed + Copy + Ord + std::fmt::Debug {
66 /// Width of the type in bits. `T` in the module documentation.
67 const WIDTH: usize;
68 /// How many of these fit in the 1024 bit virtual register, which is how many lanes there are.
69 const LANES: usize = VALUES / Self::WIDTH;
70
71 /// Widens to the type the packing arithmetic is done in.
72 fn to_u64(self) -> u64;
73 /// Narrows back. The high bits are already known to be zero.
74 fn from_u64(value: u64) -> Self;
75}
76
77macro_rules! impl_packable {
78 ($($ty:ty),*) => {$(
79 impl Packable for $ty {
80 const WIDTH: usize = <$ty>::BITS as usize;
81
82 #[inline]
83 fn to_u64(self) -> u64 {
84 u64::from(self)
85 }
86
87 #[inline]
88 fn from_u64(value: u64) -> Self {
89 value as $ty
90 }
91 }
92 )*};
93}
94
95impl_packable!(u8, u16, u32, u64);
96
97/// A mask of the low `bits` bits, correct at 0 and at 64 where the shift would overflow.
98#[inline]
99const fn low_mask(bits: usize) -> u64 {
100 if bits >= 64 { u64::MAX } else { (1u64 << bits) - 1 }
101}
102
103/// A right shift that saturates to zero at 64 rather than overflowing.
104#[inline]
105const fn shift_right(value: u64, bits: usize) -> u64 {
106 if bits >= 64 { 0 } else { value >> bits }
107}
108
109/// Where the value at row `row` lane `lane` of the transposed matrix came from in the input.
110///
111/// The row index is split into a group and an offset within the group, the group is permuted by
112/// the fixed order in the module documentation, and the two are recombined with the offset as the
113/// high part. The lane index is untouched, which is the property that makes the layout lane
114/// parallel.
115///
116/// # Panics
117///
118/// If `row` is not below `T::WIDTH` or `lane` is not below `T::LANES`.
119#[inline]
120#[must_use]
121pub fn source_index<T: Packable>(row: usize, lane: usize) -> usize {
122 assert!(row < T::WIDTH, "row {row} is outside a {} bit type", T::WIDTH);
123 assert!(lane < T::LANES, "lane {lane} is outside {} lanes", T::LANES);
124 let group_size = T::WIDTH / 8;
125 let group = row / group_size;
126 let offset = row % group_size;
127 ((offset * 8) + ORDER[group]) * T::LANES + lane
128}
129
130/// Rewrites 1024 values from row order into the transposed layout.
131///
132/// # Errors
133///
134/// If either slice is not exactly [`VALUES`] long.
135pub fn transpose<T: Packable>(input: &[T], output: &mut [T]) -> Result<()> {
136 check_vector_len(input.len(), "input")?;
137 check_vector_len(output.len(), "output")?;
138 for row in 0..T::WIDTH {
139 for lane in 0..T::LANES {
140 output[row * T::LANES + lane] = input[source_index::<T>(row, lane)];
141 }
142 }
143 Ok(())
144}
145
146/// Rewrites 1024 values from the transposed layout back into row order.
147///
148/// # Errors
149///
150/// If either slice is not exactly [`VALUES`] long.
151pub fn untranspose<T: Packable>(input: &[T], output: &mut [T]) -> Result<()> {
152 check_vector_len(input.len(), "input")?;
153 check_vector_len(output.len(), "output")?;
154 for row in 0..T::WIDTH {
155 for lane in 0..T::LANES {
156 output[source_index::<T>(row, lane)] = input[row * T::LANES + lane];
157 }
158 }
159 Ok(())
160}
161
162/// How many words of `T` a packed vector of the given width occupies.
163///
164/// Every lane contributes `width` words, which is the same `width * 1024` bits the naive layout
165/// would use. The layout costs nothing in space.
166#[must_use]
167pub fn packed_len<T: Packable>(width: usize) -> usize {
168 width * T::LANES
169}
170
171/// The smallest bit width that can hold every value in the slice. Zero for an empty slice or a
172/// slice of zeros, which [`pack_transposed`] handles as the degenerate case that stores nothing.
173#[must_use]
174pub fn required_width<T: Packable>(values: &[T]) -> usize {
175 let max = values.iter().copied().max().map_or(0, T::to_u64);
176 (64 - max.leading_zeros()) as usize
177}
178
179/// Packs a transposed vector at a fixed bit width.
180///
181/// The input is 1024 values already in the layout [`transpose`] produces, and the output is
182/// [`packed_len`] words. Every lane is packed independently and the loop over lanes is the one a
183/// SIMD implementation replaces with a single register.
184///
185/// # Errors
186///
187/// If the input is not [`VALUES`] long, if the output is not [`packed_len`] long, if `width`
188/// exceeds the width of the type, or if a value does not fit in `width` bits.
189pub fn pack_transposed<T: Packable>(input: &[T], width: usize, output: &mut [T]) -> Result<()> {
190 check_vector_len(input.len(), "input")?;
191 check_width::<T>(width)?;
192 if output.len() != packed_len::<T>(width) {
193 return Err(Error::internal(format!(
194 "a {width} bit packed vector is {} words, not {}",
195 packed_len::<T>(width),
196 output.len()
197 )));
198 }
199 if width == 0 {
200 // Nothing is stored. The caller has already established that every value is zero, either
201 // by asking for `required_width` or by being the CONSTANT encoding, and the check below
202 // enforces it rather than trusting it.
203 return check_all_zero(input);
204 }
205
206 let mask = low_mask(width);
207 let lanes = T::LANES;
208 for lane in 0..lanes {
209 // Bits already sitting in `accumulator`, always below `T::WIDTH` between iterations.
210 let mut filled = 0usize;
211 let mut accumulator = 0u64;
212 let mut word = 0usize;
213 for row in 0..T::WIDTH {
214 let value = input[row * lanes + lane].to_u64();
215 if value & !mask != 0 {
216 return Err(Error::internal(format!("value {value} does not fit in {width} bits")));
217 }
218 accumulator |= value << filled;
219 filled += width;
220 if filled >= T::WIDTH {
221 output[word * lanes + lane] = T::from_u64(accumulator & low_mask(T::WIDTH));
222 word += 1;
223 // The only value that can straddle the word boundary is the one just written, so
224 // the carry is a shift of it rather than anything kept from earlier rows.
225 let consumed = width - (filled - T::WIDTH);
226 filled -= T::WIDTH;
227 accumulator = shift_right(value, consumed);
228 }
229 }
230 debug_assert_eq!(filled, 0, "a packed lane always ends on a word boundary");
231 }
232 Ok(())
233}
234
235/// Unpacks into the transposed layout. The inverse of [`pack_transposed`].
236///
237/// # Errors
238///
239/// If the input is not [`packed_len`] long, if the output is not [`VALUES`] long, or if `width`
240/// exceeds the width of the type.
241pub fn unpack_transposed<T: Packable>(input: &[T], width: usize, output: &mut [T]) -> Result<()> {
242 check_width::<T>(width)?;
243 check_vector_len(output.len(), "output")?;
244 if input.len() != packed_len::<T>(width) {
245 return Err(Error::internal(format!(
246 "a {width} bit packed vector is {} words, not {}",
247 packed_len::<T>(width),
248 input.len()
249 )));
250 }
251 if width == 0 {
252 output.fill(T::from_u64(0));
253 return Ok(());
254 }
255
256 let mask = low_mask(width);
257 let lanes = T::LANES;
258 for lane in 0..lanes {
259 // Bits of the current word not yet handed out, right aligned in `buffer`.
260 let mut available = 0usize;
261 let mut buffer = 0u64;
262 let mut word = 0usize;
263 for row in 0..T::WIDTH {
264 let value = if available >= width {
265 let value = buffer & mask;
266 buffer = shift_right(buffer, width);
267 available -= width;
268 value
269 } else {
270 let next = input[word * lanes + lane].to_u64();
271 word += 1;
272 let taken = width - available;
273 let value = buffer | ((next & low_mask(taken)) << available);
274 buffer = shift_right(next, taken);
275 available = T::WIDTH - taken;
276 value
277 };
278 output[row * lanes + lane] = T::from_u64(value);
279 }
280 }
281 Ok(())
282}
283
284/// The buffer [`pack_with`] transposes through, kept so it can be reused.
285///
286/// Going between row order and the transposed layout needs somewhere to put the other order, and
287/// that somewhere is [`VALUES`] values, which is 8 KB for a `u64`. Allocating it per call is not the
288/// expensive part. Zeroing it is, because the allocator hands back a page it has to clear and the
289/// transpose then writes every element of it anyway. On a scan of a packed integer column that is
290/// once per 1024 rows, and it showed up as the largest single item in a ClickBench profile, larger
291/// than the unpacking it was making room for.
292///
293/// So a caller that packs more than one unit should make one of these and pass it in. The unpacking
294/// side does not need one at all any more: see [`unpack`].
295///
296/// It starts empty and grows on the first unit that needs it, because a caller holds one for a whole
297/// decode and most chunks are not bit packed at all. Making the buffer in the constructor was tried
298/// and was worse than what it replaced, by more than the zeroing it saved.
299#[derive(Debug)]
300pub struct Scratch<T: Packable> {
301 transposed: Vec<T>,
302}
303
304impl<T: Packable> Scratch<T> {
305 /// A scratch buffer that has not made room for anything yet.
306 #[must_use]
307 pub const fn new() -> Self {
308 Self { transposed: Vec::new() }
309 }
310
311 /// Makes room for one unit. A no op every time after the first.
312 fn ready(&mut self) {
313 if self.transposed.len() != VALUES {
314 self.transposed.resize(VALUES, T::from_u64(0));
315 }
316 }
317}
318
319impl<T: Packable> Default for Scratch<T> {
320 fn default() -> Self {
321 Self::new()
322 }
323}
324
325/// Packs a vector given in row order, transposing it first.
326///
327/// The engine does not use this. Data written by the storage layer is transposed once on the way
328/// in and stays that way, per the module documentation. This exists for tests, for the format lab,
329/// and for the one place that has to hand back a vector in the order the user gave it.
330///
331/// # Errors
332///
333/// As [`pack_transposed`].
334pub fn pack<T: Packable>(input: &[T], width: usize, output: &mut [T]) -> Result<()> {
335 pack_with(input, width, output, &mut Scratch::new())
336}
337
338/// As [`pack`], through a buffer the caller keeps rather than one allocated per call.
339///
340/// # Errors
341///
342/// As [`pack_transposed`].
343pub fn pack_with<T: Packable>(
344 input: &[T],
345 width: usize,
346 output: &mut [T],
347 scratch: &mut Scratch<T>,
348) -> Result<()> {
349 check_vector_len(input.len(), "input")?;
350 scratch.ready();
351 transpose(input, &mut scratch.transposed)?;
352 pack_transposed(&scratch.transposed, width, output)
353}
354
355/// Unpacks into row order. The inverse of [`pack`].
356///
357/// This is what every scan of a packed integer column goes through, so it is written as one pass
358/// rather than as [`unpack_transposed`] followed by [`untranspose`]. Those two are still here and
359/// still the definition of the layout, and the test below checks this agrees with them at every
360/// width, but running them in sequence costs three things this does not. A 1024 value buffer to
361/// hold the middle, a second read of all of it, and a scatter: `untranspose` walks its input in
362/// order and writes all over its output, which is a store that misses and a loop no compiler will
363/// turn into wider instructions.
364///
365/// The fused form works because a row has the same bit schedule in every lane. That is the whole
366/// point of the layout. Row `r` of every lane takes bits `r * width` to `(r + 1) * width` of that
367/// lane's stream, so which word to read and how far to shift it are decided once for the row, and
368/// what is left for the lanes is a load, a shift, an or, a mask and a store with no branch and no
369/// carry from the lane before. The lanes of a row are next to each other in both the packed words
370/// and the output, so that inner loop reads and writes straight lines. Where a row lands in the
371/// output is the permutation `untranspose` was applying, and since the lane index is the low part
372/// of it, it comes out as a base address for the row and costs nothing.
373///
374/// # Errors
375///
376/// As [`unpack_transposed`].
377pub fn unpack<T: Packable>(input: &[T], width: usize, output: &mut [T]) -> Result<()> {
378 check_width::<T>(width)?;
379 check_vector_len(output.len(), "output")?;
380 if input.len() != packed_len::<T>(width) {
381 return Err(Error::internal(format!(
382 "a {width} bit packed vector is {} words, not {}",
383 packed_len::<T>(width),
384 input.len()
385 )));
386 }
387 if width == 0 {
388 output.fill(T::from_u64(0));
389 return Ok(());
390 }
391
392 let mask = low_mask(width);
393 let lanes = T::LANES;
394 let group_size = T::WIDTH / 8;
395 for row in 0..T::WIDTH {
396 let bit = row * width;
397 let word = bit / T::WIDTH;
398 let shift = bit % T::WIDTH;
399 // The same arithmetic as `source_index` with the lane left off, because the lane is the low
400 // part of it and the lanes of a row are consecutive from here.
401 let base = ((row % group_size) * 8 + ORDER[row / group_size]) * lanes;
402 let low = &input[word * lanes..(word + 1) * lanes];
403 let into = &mut output[base..base + lanes];
404 if shift + width <= T::WIDTH {
405 for lane in 0..lanes {
406 into[lane] = T::from_u64((low[lane].to_u64() >> shift) & mask);
407 }
408 } else {
409 // The value straddles two words, so `shift` is above zero, the carry in from the word
410 // above is a left shift by less than the word width, and neither shift can overflow.
411 // There is a word above to read: a value that straddles into word `word + 1` is one the
412 // packer wrote there, and it wrote `width` words a lane.
413 let carried = T::WIDTH - shift;
414 let high = &input[(word + 1) * lanes..(word + 2) * lanes];
415 for lane in 0..lanes {
416 let value = (low[lane].to_u64() >> shift) | (high[lane].to_u64() << carried);
417 into[lane] = T::from_u64(value & mask);
418 }
419 }
420 }
421 Ok(())
422}
423
424/// How many bytes [`pack_tail`] writes for `count` values at `width` bits.
425#[must_use]
426pub fn tail_len(count: usize, width: usize) -> usize {
427 (count * width).div_ceil(8)
428}
429
430/// Packs fewer than [`VALUES`] values, sequentially and to a byte boundary.
431///
432/// The transposed layout is all or nothing. A value lives at a row and a lane, the lanes are
433/// interleaved through the whole buffer, and there is no prefix of a packed unit that holds a
434/// prefix of the values. So a unit holding 3 values costs the same as a unit holding 1024, which is
435/// 5 KB to store three numbers, and every nested array in a cascade is short: a dictionary of five
436/// entries, a run length array, an exception list.
437///
438/// This is the other layout for exactly those. It is the obvious sequential one, value 0 in the low
439/// bits, and it has the dependency chain the transposed layout was chosen to avoid. That is
440/// affordable here and only here: a tail is at most 1023 values and is decoded once, so the chain
441/// is bounded by a number that does not grow with the data, while a full unit is on the hot path of
442/// every scan in the system.
443///
444/// # Errors
445///
446/// If `count` is not below [`VALUES`], if `width` exceeds 64, or if a value does not fit.
447pub fn pack_tail(values: &[u64], width: usize, output: &mut Vec<u8>) -> Result<()> {
448 check_tail(values.len(), width)?;
449 pack_linear(values, width, output)
450}
451
452/// Packs any number of values in the layout [`pack_tail`] writes.
453///
454/// [`pack_tail`] is this with a bound, and the bound is a statement about columns rather than about
455/// the layout: a column that has a whole unit of values has a transposed unit to put them in, so
456/// the sequential layout is for the remainder and asking for it with a full unit in hand is a bug.
457///
458/// A key map is the other kind of caller. It is not a column, it is never decoded as a run, and
459/// every read of it is a single [`tail_at`] out of the middle of a binary search, so the transposed
460/// layout would buy it nothing and the bound would cost it the form: the sorted key map over
461/// fifteen million `orders` rows is fifteen million values in one array addressed by index. The
462/// writer's carry chain is still here and is still serial, and that is a build time cost paid once
463/// over a column that is being sorted anyway.
464///
465/// # Errors
466///
467/// If `width` exceeds 64, or if a value does not fit in `width` bits.
468pub fn pack_linear(values: &[u64], width: usize, output: &mut Vec<u8>) -> Result<()> {
469 if width > 64 {
470 return Err(Error::internal(format!("{width} bits does not fit in 64")));
471 }
472 if width == 0 {
473 return check_all_zero(values);
474 }
475 let mask = low_mask(width);
476 // 128 bits, because the accumulator holds up to 7 bits left over from the previous value plus a
477 // whole 64 bit one.
478 let mut accumulator: u128 = 0;
479 let mut filled = 0usize;
480 for value in values {
481 if value & !mask != 0 {
482 return Err(Error::internal(format!("value {value} does not fit in {width} bits")));
483 }
484 accumulator |= u128::from(*value) << filled;
485 filled += width;
486 while filled >= 8 {
487 output.push((accumulator & 0xff) as u8);
488 accumulator >>= 8;
489 filled -= 8;
490 }
491 }
492 if filled > 0 {
493 output.push((accumulator & 0xff) as u8);
494 }
495 Ok(())
496}
497
498/// Unpacks what [`pack_tail`] wrote.
499///
500/// The writer has a dependency chain because it has to know how many bits are left over from the
501/// value before, but the reader does not, and this does not carry one. Value `index` occupies the
502/// `width` bits starting at bit `index * width`, so its position is arithmetic rather than history,
503/// and since it begins at most seven bits into a byte and runs at most sixty four, it always lies
504/// inside sixteen bytes read from that byte. One unaligned load, one shift and one mask.
505///
506/// That matters more than the module documentation lets on. The argument there is that a tail is at
507/// most 1023 values and so is bounded by a number that does not grow with the data, which is true
508/// per call and misleading in aggregate, because a cascade puts a short array in every chunk and a
509/// scan reads every chunk. ClickBench 9 is where it showed. UserID is nearly unique, so its
510/// dictionary holds about a thousand sixty four bit values per part and lands one value short of a
511/// full unit, which sends the whole column down this path: nine hundred and seventy four parts,
512/// about a million values, and the byte at a time version fed eight bytes through a `u128` for each
513/// one. That was fifty five percent of the instructions of a scan of that column on its own.
514///
515/// # Errors
516///
517/// If `count` is not below [`VALUES`], if `width` exceeds 64, or if the input is shorter than
518/// [`tail_len`].
519pub fn unpack_tail(input: &[u8], width: usize, count: usize) -> Result<Vec<u64>> {
520 check_tail(count, width)?;
521 if width == 0 {
522 return Ok(vec![0; count]);
523 }
524 if input.len() < tail_len(count, width) {
525 return Err(Error::internal(format!(
526 "{count} values at {width} bits need {} bytes and there are {}",
527 tail_len(count, width),
528 input.len()
529 )));
530 }
531 let mask = u128::from(low_mask(width));
532 let mut values = Vec::with_capacity(count);
533 let read = |window: u128, bit: usize| ((window >> bit) & mask) as u64;
534 // A buffer shorter than a window is one load for the whole call, because everything it holds is
535 // inside it. Short arrays are most of what a cascade stores, so this is the common case by
536 // count of calls even though it is the rare one by count of values.
537 if input.len() < WINDOW {
538 let mut window = [0u8; WINDOW];
539 window[..input.len()].copy_from_slice(input);
540 let word = u128::from_le_bytes(window);
541 for index in 0..count {
542 values.push(read(word, index * width));
543 }
544 return Ok(values);
545 }
546 // Otherwise a value is read where it lies, until the window would run off the end.
547 let whole = (((input.len() - WINDOW) * 8) / width + 1).min(count);
548 if width <= NARROW {
549 // Half the window, because a value this wide that starts at most seven bits into a byte
550 // ends inside the eight bytes from that byte. The shift and the mask are then one
551 // instruction each where a 128 bit shift is three, and every real width is down here: the
552 // offsets a text block carries are seventeen bits and a dictionary code is fewer.
553 let mask = low_mask(width);
554 for index in 0..whole {
555 let bit = index * width;
556 let word = word_at(input, bit / 8);
557 values.push((word >> (bit % 8)) & mask);
558 }
559 } else {
560 for index in 0..whole {
561 let bit = index * width;
562 let mut window = [0u8; WINDOW];
563 window.copy_from_slice(&input[bit / 8..bit / 8 + WINDOW]);
564 values.push(read(u128::from_le_bytes(window), bit % 8));
565 }
566 }
567 if whole < count {
568 // Every value left over begins past the sixteenth byte from the end, by the definition of
569 // `whole` just above, and the buffer stops on the byte holding the top bits of the last
570 // one. So all of them lie inside the final window and one load serves the lot.
571 let base = input.len() - WINDOW;
572 let mut window = [0u8; WINDOW];
573 window.copy_from_slice(&input[base..]);
574 let word = u128::from_le_bytes(window);
575 for index in whole..count {
576 values.push(read(word, index * width - base * 8));
577 }
578 }
579 Ok(values)
580}
581
582/// One value of a run written by [`pack_tail`], read where it lies.
583///
584/// [`unpack_tail`] decodes the whole run, which is what a scan wants and what nearly every caller
585/// here is. A binary search is the other kind of caller: it wants one value out of the middle of a
586/// block, it makes about as many probes as the block has bits, and decoding the block to answer one
587/// of them would cost more than reading the value it was avoiding.
588///
589/// # Errors
590///
591/// If `width` exceeds 64, or if the value would run past the end of `input`.
592#[inline]
593pub fn tail_at(input: &[u8], width: usize, index: usize) -> Result<u64> {
594 if width > 64 {
595 return Err(Error::internal(format!("a width of {width} is past what a u64 holds")));
596 }
597 if width == 0 {
598 return Ok(0);
599 }
600 let start = index * width;
601 let end = start + width;
602 if end.div_ceil(8) > input.len() {
603 return Err(Error::internal(format!(
604 "value {index} at {width} bits ends past the {} bytes there are",
605 input.len()
606 )));
607 }
608 let first = start / 8;
609 let last = (end - 1) / 8;
610 // A value that ends inside the eight bytes it starts in is one load, one shift and one mask.
611 // The window below copies a length the compiler does not know, which is a call to `memcpy`
612 // rather than a load, and this reads one value at a time for every string a text column hands
613 // out. It was fifteen percent of ClickBench 27.
614 if first + 8 <= input.len() && last - first < 8 {
615 return Ok((word_at(input, first) >> (start % 8)) & low_mask(width));
616 }
617 let mut window = [0u8; WINDOW];
618 window[..=last - first].copy_from_slice(&input[first..=last]);
619 let word = u128::from_le_bytes(window);
620 Ok(((word >> (start % 8)) & u128::from(low_mask(width))) as u64)
621}
622
623/// Two neighbouring values of a run, read from one load where the pair fits inside it.
624///
625/// `index` is the later of the two and the answer is the pair at `index - 1` and `index`. A text
626/// column asks for exactly this once per string it hands out, because a value starts where the one
627/// before it ended. Two calls to [`tail_at`] read the same eight bytes twice and do the bounds
628/// arithmetic twice, where a pair of seventeen bit offsets, which is what a block of text carries,
629/// both lie inside one load.
630///
631/// # Errors
632///
633/// If `index` is zero, if `width` exceeds 64, or if the pair would run past the end of `input`.
634#[inline]
635pub fn tail_pair(input: &[u8], width: usize, index: usize) -> Result<(u64, u64)> {
636 let Some(before) = index.checked_sub(1) else {
637 return Err(Error::internal("a tail pair has nothing before its first value"));
638 };
639 if width == 0 {
640 return Ok((0, 0));
641 }
642 let start = before * width;
643 let shift = start % 8;
644 let first = start / 8;
645 if shift + 2 * width <= u64::BITS as usize && first + 8 <= input.len() {
646 let word = word_at(input, first) >> shift;
647 let mask = low_mask(width);
648 return Ok((word & mask, (word >> width) & mask));
649 }
650 Ok((tail_at(input, width, before)?, tail_at(input, width, index)?))
651}
652
653/// The bytes a single tail value can span, which is a shift of at most seven plus a width of at
654/// most sixty four, so seventy one bits and therefore nine bytes, rounded up to the load that
655/// covers it.
656const WINDOW: usize = 16;
657
658/// The widest value that always ends inside the eight bytes it starts in, which is sixty four bits
659/// less the seven a value can begin into its first byte.
660const NARROW: usize = 57;
661
662/// Eight bytes read where they lie, as one load.
663///
664/// The length is a constant the compiler can see, which is what makes it a load. The caller is
665/// responsible for `at + 8` being inside `input`, and the index below says so where it is not.
666#[inline]
667fn word_at(input: &[u8], at: usize) -> u64 {
668 let run: [u8; 8] = input[at..at + 8].try_into().expect("eight bytes");
669 u64::from_le_bytes(run)
670}
671
672fn check_tail(count: usize, width: usize) -> Result<()> {
673 if count >= VALUES {
674 return Err(Error::internal(format!(
675 "{count} values is a whole unit and belongs in the transposed layout"
676 )));
677 }
678 if width > 64 {
679 return Err(Error::internal(format!("{width} bits does not fit in 64")));
680 }
681 Ok(())
682}
683
684fn check_vector_len(len: usize, what: &str) -> Result<()> {
685 if len == VALUES {
686 Ok(())
687 } else {
688 Err(Error::internal(format!("{what} is {len} values, and a packed unit is {VALUES}")))
689 }
690}
691
692fn check_width<T: Packable>(width: usize) -> Result<()> {
693 if width <= T::WIDTH {
694 Ok(())
695 } else {
696 Err(Error::internal(format!("{width} bits does not fit in a {} bit type", T::WIDTH)))
697 }
698}
699
700fn check_all_zero<T: Packable>(input: &[T]) -> Result<()> {
701 match input.iter().position(|value| value.to_u64() != 0) {
702 None => Ok(()),
703 Some(index) => Err(Error::internal(format!(
704 "a zero bit vector cannot hold {:?} at {index}",
705 input[index]
706 ))),
707 }
708}
709
710#[cfg(test)]
711mod tests {
712 use super::*;
713
714 /// A xorshift, so that the test data is the same on every host and in every run without the
715 /// workspace growing a dependency for it.
716 struct Random(u64);
717
718 impl Random {
719 fn new() -> Self {
720 Self(0x2545_f491_4f6c_dd1d)
721 }
722
723 fn next(&mut self) -> u64 {
724 self.0 ^= self.0 << 13;
725 self.0 ^= self.0 >> 7;
726 self.0 ^= self.0 << 17;
727 self.0
728 }
729 }
730
731 fn sample<T: Packable>(width: usize) -> Vec<T> {
732 let mut random = Random::new();
733 (0..VALUES).map(|_| T::from_u64(random.next() & low_mask(width))).collect()
734 }
735
736 fn round_trip<T: Packable>(width: usize) {
737 let values = sample::<T>(width);
738 let mut packed = vec![T::from_u64(0); packed_len::<T>(width)];
739 pack(&values, width, &mut packed).unwrap();
740 let mut back = vec![T::from_u64(0); VALUES];
741 unpack(&packed, width, &mut back).unwrap();
742 assert_eq!(back, values, "{width} bits of a {} bit type", T::WIDTH);
743 }
744
745 #[test]
746 fn every_width_of_every_type_round_trips() {
747 for width in 0..=8 {
748 round_trip::<u8>(width);
749 }
750 for width in 0..=16 {
751 round_trip::<u16>(width);
752 }
753 for width in 0..=32 {
754 round_trip::<u32>(width);
755 }
756 for width in 0..=64 {
757 round_trip::<u64>(width);
758 }
759 }
760
761 #[test]
762 fn a_reused_scratch_gives_what_a_fresh_one_gives() {
763 // The buffer a unit transposes through is handed in so it is not zeroed per call, which is
764 // only sound if every element of it is written every time. If some were not, a narrow unit
765 // following a wide one would read whatever the wide one left behind, so the widths here go
766 // up and down rather than in order and each answer is checked against the same unit packed
767 // through a buffer nothing has touched.
768 let mut scratch = Scratch::<u64>::new();
769 for width in [64, 1, 33, 7, 64, 0, 17, 60, 3] {
770 let values = sample::<u64>(width);
771 let mut reused = vec![0u64; packed_len::<u64>(width)];
772 pack_with(&values, width, &mut reused, &mut scratch).unwrap();
773 let mut fresh = vec![0u64; packed_len::<u64>(width)];
774 pack(&values, width, &mut fresh).unwrap();
775 assert_eq!(reused, fresh, "at {width} bits after a wider unit");
776 let mut back = vec![0u64; VALUES];
777 unpack(&reused, width, &mut back).unwrap();
778 assert_eq!(back, values, "at {width} bits");
779 }
780 }
781
782 #[test]
783 fn the_one_pass_unpack_gives_what_the_two_passes_give() {
784 // `unpack` is the fused form of `unpack_transposed` followed by `untranspose`, and those two
785 // are the definition of the layout. So this checks the fast one against the slow one at
786 // every width of every type rather than against a remembered answer, which is the check that
787 // would catch the fused one getting a shift or a row base wrong at one width out of sixty
788 // five.
789 fn agree<T: Packable>() {
790 for width in 0..=T::WIDTH {
791 let values = sample::<T>(width);
792 let mut transposed = vec![T::from_u64(0); VALUES];
793 transpose(&values, &mut transposed).unwrap();
794 let mut packed = vec![T::from_u64(0); packed_len::<T>(width)];
795 pack_transposed(&transposed, width, &mut packed).unwrap();
796
797 let mut middle = vec![T::from_u64(0); VALUES];
798 unpack_transposed(&packed, width, &mut middle).unwrap();
799 let mut slow = vec![T::from_u64(0); VALUES];
800 untranspose(&middle, &mut slow).unwrap();
801
802 let mut fast = vec![T::from_u64(0); VALUES];
803 unpack(&packed, width, &mut fast).unwrap();
804
805 assert_eq!(fast, slow, "{} bit type at {width} bits", T::WIDTH);
806 assert_eq!(fast, values, "{} bit type at {width} bits round trip", T::WIDTH);
807 }
808 }
809 agree::<u8>();
810 agree::<u16>();
811 agree::<u32>();
812 agree::<u64>();
813 }
814
815 #[test]
816 fn the_transposed_form_also_round_trips_without_being_reordered() {
817 // What the engine actually does: transpose once, then pack and unpack any number of times
818 // without ever going back to row order.
819 let values = sample::<u32>(19);
820 let mut transposed = vec![0u32; VALUES];
821 transpose(&values, &mut transposed).unwrap();
822 let mut packed = vec![0u32; packed_len::<u32>(19)];
823 pack_transposed(&transposed, 19, &mut packed).unwrap();
824 let mut back = vec![0u32; VALUES];
825 unpack_transposed(&packed, 19, &mut back).unwrap();
826 assert_eq!(back, transposed);
827 }
828
829 #[test]
830 fn the_permutation_is_a_bijection() {
831 // Every value has to land somewhere and no two may land in the same place, or a round trip
832 // would silently drop rows. Checked for all four widths because the group size changes.
833 fn check<T: Packable>() {
834 let mut seen = vec![false; VALUES];
835 for row in 0..T::WIDTH {
836 for lane in 0..T::LANES {
837 let index = source_index::<T>(row, lane);
838 assert!(!seen[index], "{index} is written twice for {} bits", T::WIDTH);
839 seen[index] = true;
840 }
841 }
842 assert!(seen.into_iter().all(|hit| hit));
843 }
844 check::<u8>();
845 check::<u16>();
846 check::<u32>();
847 check::<u64>();
848 }
849
850 #[test]
851 fn transposing_is_not_the_identity() {
852 // If it were, the test above would be passing on a layout that is not the FastLanes one.
853 let values: Vec<u32> = (0..VALUES).map(|index| index as u32).collect();
854 let mut transposed = vec![0u32; VALUES];
855 transpose(&values, &mut transposed).unwrap();
856 assert_ne!(transposed, values);
857 let mut back = vec![0u32; VALUES];
858 untranspose(&transposed, &mut back).unwrap();
859 assert_eq!(back, values);
860 }
861
862 #[test]
863 fn a_full_width_pack_is_the_data_itself() {
864 // 64 bits of a 64 bit type has no packing to do, and the loop that handles the general case
865 // has to get the degenerate one right rather than shifting by 64 and wrapping.
866 let values = sample::<u64>(64);
867 let mut transposed = vec![0u64; VALUES];
868 transpose(&values, &mut transposed).unwrap();
869 let mut packed = vec![0u64; packed_len::<u64>(64)];
870 pack_transposed(&transposed, 64, &mut packed).unwrap();
871 assert_eq!(packed, transposed);
872 }
873
874 #[test]
875 fn a_zero_width_vector_stores_nothing_and_reads_back_as_zeros() {
876 let values = vec![0u32; VALUES];
877 assert_eq!(required_width(&values), 0);
878 let mut packed = Vec::new();
879 pack(&values, 0, &mut packed).unwrap();
880 let mut back = vec![7u32; VALUES];
881 unpack(&packed, 0, &mut back).unwrap();
882 assert_eq!(back, values);
883 }
884
885 #[test]
886 fn required_width_is_the_bits_of_the_largest_value() {
887 assert_eq!(required_width::<u32>(&[]), 0);
888 assert_eq!(required_width::<u32>(&[0, 0]), 0);
889 assert_eq!(required_width::<u32>(&[1]), 1);
890 assert_eq!(required_width::<u32>(&[255, 3]), 8);
891 assert_eq!(required_width::<u32>(&[256]), 9);
892 assert_eq!(required_width::<u64>(&[u64::MAX]), 64);
893 }
894
895 #[test]
896 fn a_value_too_wide_for_the_width_is_an_error_rather_than_silent_truncation() {
897 let mut values = vec![0u32; VALUES];
898 values[500] = 8;
899 let mut transposed = vec![0u32; VALUES];
900 transpose(&values, &mut transposed).unwrap();
901 let mut packed = vec![0u32; packed_len::<u32>(3)];
902 let error = pack_transposed(&transposed, 3, &mut packed).unwrap_err();
903 assert!(error.message().contains("does not fit in 3 bits"), "{error}");
904 }
905
906 #[test]
907 fn a_wrong_sized_buffer_is_an_error() {
908 let values = vec![0u32; VALUES];
909 let mut packed = vec![0u32; 3];
910 let error = pack(&values, 5, &mut packed).unwrap_err();
911 assert!(error.message().contains("words"), "{error}");
912
913 let short = vec![0u32; 7];
914 let mut output = vec![0u32; VALUES];
915 let error = unpack(&short, 5, &mut output).unwrap_err();
916 assert!(error.message().contains("words"), "{error}");
917 }
918
919 #[test]
920 fn a_nonzero_value_at_zero_width_is_an_error() {
921 let mut values = vec![0u32; VALUES];
922 values[9] = 1;
923 let mut packed = Vec::new();
924 let error = pack(&values, 0, &mut packed).unwrap_err();
925 assert!(error.message().contains("zero bit vector"), "{error}");
926 }
927
928 #[test]
929 fn packing_at_a_width_the_type_cannot_hold_is_an_error() {
930 let values = vec![0u16; VALUES];
931 let mut packed = vec![0u16; 17 * 64];
932 let error = pack(&values, 17, &mut packed).unwrap_err();
933 assert!(error.message().contains("16 bit type"), "{error}");
934 }
935
936 #[test]
937 fn a_tail_round_trips_at_every_width_and_every_length() {
938 let mut random = Random::new();
939 for width in 0..=64usize {
940 for count in [0usize, 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 100, 1023] {
941 let values: Vec<u64> =
942 (0..count).map(|_| random.next() & low_mask(width)).collect();
943 let mut bytes = Vec::new();
944 pack_tail(&values, width, &mut bytes).unwrap();
945 assert_eq!(bytes.len(), tail_len(count, width), "{count} at {width}");
946 assert_eq!(
947 unpack_tail(&bytes, width, count).unwrap(),
948 values,
949 "{count} at {width}"
950 );
951 }
952 }
953 }
954
955 /// Reading one value where it lies agrees with decoding the whole run.
956 ///
957 /// Every width and every position, since the point of it is the arithmetic that finds the bytes
958 /// a value straddles, and that is what is off by one.
959 ///
960 /// A value that runs off the buffer is an error. The buffer stops on a byte boundary and a value
961 /// does not, so an index a little past the count can still lie inside the padding of the last
962 /// byte and that reads rather than complains. It is the caller that knows how many values it
963 /// wrote, the same way it does for `unpack_tail`.
964 #[test]
965 fn one_value_of_a_tail_reads_the_same_as_the_whole_of_it() {
966 let mut random = Random::new();
967 for width in 0..=64usize {
968 let count = 37;
969 let values: Vec<u64> = (0..count).map(|_| random.next() & low_mask(width)).collect();
970 let mut bytes = Vec::new();
971 pack_tail(&values, width, &mut bytes).unwrap();
972 for (index, value) in values.iter().enumerate() {
973 assert_eq!(tail_at(&bytes, width, index).unwrap(), *value, "{index} at {width}");
974 }
975 let Some(fits) = (bytes.len() * 8).checked_div(width) else { continue };
976 assert!(tail_at(&bytes, width, fits + 1).is_err(), "past the end at {width}");
977 }
978 }
979
980 /// The two halves of the reader agree with each other.
981 ///
982 /// A value is read with one sixteen byte load, which the values near the end of the buffer
983 /// cannot have because the buffer stops on the byte holding the top bits of the last one. Those
984 /// go through a zero padded copy instead, and the split between the two is arithmetic on
985 /// lengths, which is the kind of thing that is off by one. Handing the same bytes to the reader
986 /// twice, once exactly sized so the last values take the padded path and once with slack on the
987 /// end so every value takes the fast one, makes the two paths check each other at every width.
988 #[test]
989 fn the_padded_end_of_a_tail_reads_the_same_as_the_windowed_start() {
990 let mut random = Random::new();
991 for width in 1..=64usize {
992 for count in [1usize, 2, 3, 17, 129, 1023] {
993 let values: Vec<u64> =
994 (0..count).map(|_| random.next() & low_mask(width)).collect();
995 let mut exact = Vec::new();
996 pack_tail(&values, width, &mut exact).unwrap();
997 let mut slack = exact.clone();
998 slack.extend_from_slice(&[0u8; WINDOW]);
999 assert_eq!(
1000 unpack_tail(&exact, width, count).unwrap(),
1001 values,
1002 "{count} at {width}"
1003 );
1004 assert_eq!(
1005 unpack_tail(&slack, width, count).unwrap(),
1006 values,
1007 "{count} at {width}"
1008 );
1009 }
1010 }
1011 }
1012
1013 /// The pair read agrees with two single reads, at every width and every position.
1014 ///
1015 /// The pair has its own arithmetic for the case where both values fit one load, so the thing to
1016 /// check is that it falls back to the same answer everywhere that does not hold, which is every
1017 /// width past thirty two and every value near the end of the buffer.
1018 #[test]
1019 fn a_pair_of_tail_values_reads_the_same_as_the_two_of_them_apart() {
1020 let mut random = Random::new();
1021 for width in 0..=64usize {
1022 let count = 37;
1023 let values: Vec<u64> = (0..count).map(|_| random.next() & low_mask(width)).collect();
1024 let mut bytes = Vec::new();
1025 pack_tail(&values, width, &mut bytes).unwrap();
1026 for index in 1..count {
1027 assert_eq!(
1028 tail_pair(&bytes, width, index).unwrap(),
1029 (values[index - 1], values[index]),
1030 "{index} at {width}"
1031 );
1032 }
1033 assert!(tail_pair(&bytes, width, 0).is_err(), "nothing before the first at {width}");
1034 }
1035 }
1036
1037 #[test]
1038 fn a_tail_costs_its_own_values_and_not_a_whole_unit() {
1039 // The reason it exists. Three 40 bit values in the transposed layout is a 5 KB buffer.
1040 let values = vec![(1u64 << 39) + 1; 3];
1041 let mut bytes = Vec::new();
1042 pack_tail(&values, 40, &mut bytes).unwrap();
1043 assert_eq!(bytes.len(), 15);
1044 assert_eq!(packed_len::<u64>(40) * 8, 5120);
1045 }
1046
1047 #[test]
1048 fn a_whole_unit_is_refused_by_the_tail_packer() {
1049 let values = vec![0u64; VALUES];
1050 let error = pack_tail(&values, 4, &mut Vec::new()).unwrap_err();
1051 assert!(error.message().contains("whole unit"), "{error}");
1052 }
1053
1054 #[test]
1055 fn a_short_tail_buffer_is_an_error() {
1056 let error = unpack_tail(&[0, 0], 8, 5).unwrap_err();
1057 assert!(error.message().contains("need 5 bytes"), "{error}");
1058 }
1059
1060 #[test]
1061 fn the_packed_size_is_the_same_as_the_naive_layout() {
1062 for width in 0..=32 {
1063 assert_eq!(packed_len::<u32>(width) * 32, width * VALUES);
1064 }
1065 }
1066}