Hi:
1. The __len = (__len + 1) / 2; is as you suggested, need to modify as
__len = (__len == 1) ? 0 : ((__len + 1) / 2);
2. The coding gain has been shown PR c++/83938; I re-post here
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0.471136
0.625695
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0.907461
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0.639139
0.770133
0.898454
1.04632
it means when Merge [0, 4325376, 16777216); A is a sorted integer with
4325376 & B with 12451840 elements, total with 16M integers
The proposed method has the speed up under given buffer size =, ex
2^16, 2^17, ... 2^21 in unit of sizeof(int), for example, 2^16 means
given sizof(int)*64K bytes.
3. As your suggestion, _TmpBuf __buf should be rewrite.
4. It represents a fact that the intuitive idea to split from larger
part is wrong.
For example, if you have an input sorted array A & B, A has 8 integers
& B has 24 integers. Given tmp buffer whose capacity = 4 integers.
Current it tries to split from B, right?
Then we have:
A1 | A2 B1 | B2
B1 & B2 has 12 integers each, right?
Current algorithm selects pivot as 13th integer from B, right?
If the corresponding upper bound of A is 6th integer.
Then it split in
A1 = 5 | A2 = 3 | B1 = 12 | B2 = 12
After rotate, we have two arrays to merge
[A1 = 5 | B1 = 12] & [A2 = 3 | B2 = 12]
Great, [A2 = 3 | B2 = 12] can use tmp buffer to merge.
Sadly, [A1 = 5 | B1 = 12] CANNOT.
So we do rotate again, split & merge the two split arrays from [A1 = 5
| B1 = 12] again.
But wait, if we always split from the smaller one instead of larger one.
After rotate, it promises two split arrays both contain
ceiling[small/2].
Since tmp buffer also allocate by starting from sizeof(small) &
recursively downgrade by ceiling[small/2^(# of fail allocate)].
It means the allocated tmp buffer promises to be sufficient at the
level of (# of fail allocate).
Instead, you can see if split from large at level (# of fail allocate)
several split array still CANNOT use tmp buffer to do buffered merge.
As you know, buffered merge is far speed then (split, rotate, and
merge two sub-arrays) (PR c++/83938 gives the profiling figures),
the way should provide speedup.
Thanks.
On 24/01/2018 18:23, François Dumont wrote:
Hi
It sounds like a very sensitive change to make but nothing worth
figures.
Do you have any bench showing the importance of the gain ?
At least the memory usage optimization is obvious.
On 19/01/2018 10:43, chang jc wrote:
Current std::inplace_merge() suffers from performance issue by
inefficient
logic under limited memory,
It leads to performance downgrade.
Please help to review it.
Index: include/bits/stl_algo.h
===================================================================
--- include/bits/stl_algo.h (revision 256871)
+++ include/bits/stl_algo.h (working copy)
@@ -2437,7 +2437,7 @@
_BidirectionalIterator __second_cut = __middle;
_Distance __len11 = 0;
_Distance __len22 = 0;
- if (__len1 > __len2)
+ if (__len1 < __len2)
{
__len11 = __len1 / 2;
std::advance(__first_cut, __len11);
@@ -2539,9 +2539,15 @@
const _DistanceType __len1 = std::distance(__first, __middle);
const _DistanceType __len2 = std::distance(__middle, __last);
+
typedef _Temporary_buffer<_BidirectionalIterator, _ValueType>
_TmpBuf;
- _TmpBuf __buf(__first, __last);
-
+ _BidirectionalIterator __start, __end;
+ if (__len1 < __len2) {
+ __start = __first; __end = __middle;
+ } else {
+ __start = __middle; __end = __last;
+ }
+ _TmpBuf __buf(__start, ___end);
Note another optimization, we could introduce a _Temporary_buffer<>
constructor
in order to write:
_TmpBuf __buf(std::min(__len1, __len2), __first);
So that std::distance do not need to be called again.
if (__buf.begin() == 0)
std::__merge_without_buffer
(__first, __middle, __last, __len1, __len2, __comp);
Index: include/bits/stl_tempbuf.h
===================================================================
--- include/bits/stl_tempbuf.h (revision 256871)
+++ include/bits/stl_tempbuf.h (working copy)
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
std::nothrow));
if (__tmp != 0)
return std::pair<_Tp*, ptrdiff_t>(__tmp, __len);
- __len /= 2;
+ __len = (__len + 1) / 2;
This part is problematic, if __len is 1 and allocation fails it will
loop
forever.
It doesn't seem really necessary for your patch.
2018-01-20 4:05 GMT+08:00 Jason Merrill<jason@redhat.com>:
This is a libstdc++ bug and patch, not the C++ front end. So I'm
adding the libstdc++ list to CC.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 3:02 AM, chang jc<r97922153@gmail.com> wrote:
Current std::inplace_merge() suffers from performance issue by
inefficient
logic under limited memory,
It leads to performance downgrade.
Please help to review it.
Index: include/bits/stl_algo.h
===================================================================
--- include/bits/stl_algo.h (revision 256871)
+++ include/bits/stl_algo.h (working copy)
@@ -2437,7 +2437,7 @@
_BidirectionalIterator __second_cut = __middle;
_Distance __len11 = 0;
_Distance __len22 = 0;
- if (__len1 > __len2)
+ if (__len1 < __len2)
{
__len11 = __len1 / 2;
std::advance(__first_cut, __len11);
@@ -2539,9 +2539,15 @@
const _DistanceType __len1 = std::distance(__first, __middle);
const _DistanceType __len2 = std::distance(__middle, __last);
+
typedef _Temporary_buffer<_BidirectionalIterator, _ValueType>
_TmpBuf;
- _TmpBuf __buf(__first, __last);
-
+ _BidirectionalIterator __start, __end;
+ if (__len1 < __len2) {
+ __start = __first; __end = __middle;
+ } else {
+ __start = __middle; __end = __last;
+ }
+ _TmpBuf __buf(__start, ___end);
if (__buf.begin() == 0)
std::__merge_without_buffer
(__first, __middle, __last, __len1, __len2, __comp);
Index: include/bits/stl_tempbuf.h
===================================================================
--- include/bits/stl_tempbuf.h (revision 256871)
+++ include/bits/stl_tempbuf.h (working copy)
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
std::nothrow));
if (__tmp != 0)
return std::pair<_Tp*, ptrdiff_t>(__tmp, __len);
- __len /= 2;
+ __len = (__len + 1) / 2;
}
return std::pair<_Tp*, ptrdiff_t>(static_cast<_Tp*>(0), 0);
}
Thanks