The `makeMem*()` functions crashed under valgrind in Debug and
ReleaseSafe modes.
The reason being that `doMemCheckClientRequestExpr()` returns `0`
when not running under Valgrind, and `maxInt(usize)` when running
under Valgrind.
Thus, `@as(i1, @intCast(maxInt(usize)))` always fails and these
functions crashed before returning.
That being said, what these functions used to return was quite
unexpected: `0` on error and `-1` on success (=running under valgrind).
That doesn't match any Zig nor C conventions.
But that return value doesn't seem to be very useful. Either we are
running under Valgrind or we are not. There's no point in checking this
for every single call. Applications are likely to always discard it.
So, just return a `void` instead.
Also avoid function comments that start with `Similarly, ...` because
that doesn't refer to anything in the context of autodoc or in IDEs.
Before this commit, GeneralPurposeAllocator could run into incredibly degraded performance in scenarios where the bucket count for a particular size class grew to be large. For example, if exactly `slot_count` allocations of a single size class were performed and then all of them were freed except one, then the bucket for those allocations would have to be kept around indefinitely. If that pattern of allocation were done over and over, then the bucket list for that size class could grow incredibly large.
This allocation pattern has been seen in the wild: https://github.com/Vexu/arocc/issues/508#issuecomment-1738275688
In that case, the length of the bucket list for the `128` size class would grow to tens of thousands of buckets and cause Debug runtime to balloon to ~8 minutes whereas with the c_allocator the Debug runtime would be ~3 seconds.
To address this, there are three different changes happening here:
1. std.Treap is used instead of a doubly linked list for the lists of buckets. This takes the time complexity of searchBucket [used in resize and free] from O(n) to O(log n), but increases the time complexity of insert from O(1) to O(log n) [before, all new buckets would get added to the head of the list]. Note: Any data structure with O(log n) or better search/insert/delete would also work for this use-case.
2. If the 'current' bucket for a size class is full, the list of buckets is never traversed and instead a new bucket is allocated. Previously, traversing the bucket list could only find a non-full bucket in specific circumstances, and only because of a separate optimization that is no longer needed (before, after any resize/free, the affected bucket would be moved to the head of the bucket list to allow searchBucket to perform better on average). Now, the current_bucket for each size class only changes when either (1) the current bucket is emptied/freed, or (2) a new bucket is allocated (due to the current bucket being full or null). Because each bucket's alloc_cursor only moves forward (i.e. slots within a bucket are never re-used), we can therefore always know that any bucket besides the current_bucket will be full, so traversing the list in the hopes of finding an existing non-full bucket is entirely pointless.
3. Size + alignment information for small allocations has been moved into the Bucket data instead of keeping it in a separate HashMap. This offers an improvement over the HashMap since whenever we need to get/modify the length/alignment of an allocation it's extremely likely we will already have calculated any bucket-related information necessary to get the data.
The first change is the most relevant and accounts for most of the benefit here. Also note that the overall functionality of GeneralPurposeAllocator is unchanged.
In the degraded `arocc` case, these changes bring Debug performance from ~8 minutes to ~20 seconds.
Benchmark 1: test-master.bat
Time (mean ± σ): 481.263 s ± 5.440 s [User: 479.159 s, System: 1.937 s]
Range (min … max): 477.416 s … 485.109 s 2 runs
Benchmark 2: test-optim-treap.bat
Time (mean ± σ): 19.639 s ± 0.037 s [User: 18.183 s, System: 1.452 s]
Range (min … max): 19.613 s … 19.665 s 2 runs
Summary
'test-optim-treap.bat' ran
24.51 ± 0.28 times faster than 'test-master.bat'
Note: Much of the time taken on Windows in this particular case is related to gathering stack traces. With `.stack_trace_frames = 0` the runtime goes down to 6.7 seconds, which is a little more than 2.5x slower compared to when the c_allocator is used.
These changes may or mat not introduce a slight performance regression in the average case:
Here's the standard library tests on Windows in Debug mode:
Benchmark 1 (10 runs): std-tests-master.exe
measurement mean ± σ min … max outliers delta
wall_time 16.0s ± 30.8ms 15.9s … 16.1s 1 (10%) 0%
peak_rss 42.8MB ± 8.24KB 42.8MB … 42.8MB 0 ( 0%) 0%
Benchmark 2 (10 runs): std-tests-optim-treap.exe
measurement mean ± σ min … max outliers delta
wall_time 16.2s ± 37.6ms 16.1s … 16.3s 0 ( 0%) 💩+ 1.3% ± 0.2%
peak_rss 42.8MB ± 5.18KB 42.8MB … 42.8MB 0 ( 0%) + 0.1% ± 0.0%
And on Linux:
Benchmark 1: ./test-master
Time (mean ± σ): 16.091 s ± 0.088 s [User: 15.856 s, System: 0.453 s]
Range (min … max): 15.870 s … 16.166 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./test-optim-treap
Time (mean ± σ): 16.028 s ± 0.325 s [User: 15.755 s, System: 0.492 s]
Range (min … max): 15.735 s … 16.709 s 10 runs
Summary
'./test-optim-treap' ran
1.00 ± 0.02 times faster than './test-master'
zig fetch [options] <url>
zig fetch [options] <path>
Fetches a package which is found at <url> or <path> into the global
cache directory, printing the package hash to stdout.
Closes#16972
Related to #14280
Additionally, this commit:
* Adds uncompressed .tar support to package fetching
* Introduces symlink support to package fetching
Closes#14298
This commit adds support for fetching dependencies over git+http(s)
using a minimal implementation of the Git protocols and formats relevant
to fetching repository data.
Git URLs can be specified in `build.zig.zon` as follows:
```zig
.xml = .{
.url = "git+https://github.com/ianprime0509/zig-xml#7380d59d50f1cd8460fd748b5f6f179306679e2f",
.hash = "122085c1e4045fa9cb69632ff771c56acdb6760f34ca5177e80f70b0b92cd80da3e9",
},
```
The fragment part of the URL may specify a commit ID (SHA1 hash), branch
name, or tag. It is an error to omit the fragment: if this happens, the
compiler will prompt the user to add it, using the commit ID of the HEAD
commit of the repository (that is, the latest commit of the default
branch):
```
Fetch Packages... xml... /var/home/ian/src/zig-gobject/build.zig.zon:6:20: error: url field is missing an explicit ref
.url = "git+https://github.com/ianprime0509/zig-xml",
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
note: try .url = "git+https://github.com/ianprime0509/zig-xml#dfdc044f3271641c7d428dc8ec8cd46423d8b8b6",
```
This implementation currently supports only version 2 of Git's wire
protocol (documented in
[protocol-v2](https://git-scm.com/docs/protocol-v2)), which was first
introduced in Git 2.19 (2018) and made the default in 2.26 (2020).
The wire protocol behaves similarly when used over other transports,
such as SSH and the "Git protocol" (git:// URLs), so it should be
reasonably straightforward to support fetching dependencies from such
URLs if the necessary transports are implemented (e.g. #14295).
(Unmanaged)ArrayList.insert has the same inefficiency as the old insertSlice. With the new addManyAt, the solution is trivial.
Also improves the test "growing memory preserves contents". In the previous implementation, if any changes were made to the ArrayList memory growth policy (function growMemory), the list could end up with enough capacity to not trigger a memory growth, defeating the purpose of the test. The new implementation more robustly triggers a memory growth.
These are an order of magnitude quicker than the previous
implementations:
A relative comparison of each, measuring scanning a 1G file.
Reading 1G (1.0000000009313226GiB)
std.mem.sliceTo: 281.232ms
vectorized.sliceTo: 24.769ms
strlen: 24.291ms
std.indexOfScalar: 229.016ms
vectorized.indexOfScalar: 24.685ms
memchr: 24.958ms
