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perf(encode): trim dfast tail seeding and the optimal parser's per-node work - #656
dfast: after its scan the matcher indexed every position from where the scan stopped to the block's end. On incompressible input the scan's step has grown to hundreds of bytes by then, so that was hundreds of inserts per frame that nothing searches. It now indexes only the dense-tail starts the scan did not pass.
Optimal parser's binary tree: the walk is brought to upstream's shape, cutting its instructions per node. Output is identical; no speed change is established.
Optimal parser's price loop: the repeat code of each candidate is selected without branches, removing the mispredicts that made the parser's excess over libzstd. Output is identical.
Changes
DfastMatchGenerator::seed_remaining_hashable_starts starts at max(stop position, dense tail start): the gap the scan's step skipped and the starts a match already covered stay out of the tables. Test dfast_seed_remaining_hashable_starts_skips_the_gap_and_covered_starts replaces the one that required seeding the last start after a match reached the block's end.
A tree node's pair slot is stored & bt_mask (upstream matchIndex & btMask) instead of (stored + bt_bias) & bt_mask, so the walk no longer carries a per-block bias; MatchTable::bt_pair_index_for_stored documents why the coordinates never move while a node is live.
The search's per-node block-end test is a debug_assert: a node that is not a new best cannot reach the end.
The search reads only the child it descends, after the compare, as upstream and the insert body do.
BtMatcher::encode_offset_base_with_reps picks the three repeat values by the literal length and folds them with core::hint::select_unpredictable, last to first so the first match still wins (RFC 8878 3.1.2.5). Test offset_base_probe_matches_the_repeat_compare_chain checks it against the compare chain over every combination of nine edge values.
Measurements
Wall-clock / cycles, paired A/B of prebuilt --profile bench binaries against the parent revision, 5 interleaved rounds, libzstd in the same run, x86 (AVX2 + BMI2), fresh context per frame, raw skip off.
dfast tail seed (time):
cell
time vs parent
ours vs libzstd
100 KiB random, level 3
-11.0%
1.18x -> 1.05x
z000033 whole, level 3
-0.1%
0.94x -> 0.94x
z000033 in 10 KiB frames, level 3
+0.7%
1.03x -> 1.04x
z000033 in 10 KiB frames, level 1 (control)
-0.2%
1.05x -> 1.05x
Bytes over the ten largest decodecorpus files (3.1 MB): levels 1, 2 and 5 identical, levels 3 and 4 +43 / +44 bytes.
Tree walk, z000033, both tree changes together against the dfast commit in one run (output identical at every level from -7 to 22):
cell
time vs parent
instructions
ours vs libzstd (time)
10 KiB frames, level 13
-1.4%
-1.7%
1.09x -> 1.07x
10 KiB frames, level 16
-1.7%
-1.7%
1.07x -> 1.06x
10 KiB frames, level 17
-1.4%
-1.9%
0.98x -> 0.97x
10 KiB frames, level 19
-0.1%
-2.0%
1.00x -> 1.00x
1 KiB frames, level 16
-0.7%
-1.6%
1.08x -> 1.08x
whole, level 16
-1.0%
-0.8%
0.87x -> 0.86x
10 KiB frames, level 1 (control)
-1.1%
0.0%
1.04x -> 1.03x
The level 1 control, which never reaches the tree and retires the same instructions in both builds, moved -1.1%; against it every tree cell is within about a percent, so no speed change is established. The tree changes are kept as an instruction cut with output unchanged, not as a speed claim.
Repeat code, z000033, against the tree changes in one run (output identical):
cell
branch misses
time vs parent
ours vs libzstd (time)
10 KiB frames, level 13
-5.9%
-1.8%
1.08x -> 1.06x
10 KiB frames, level 16
-6.8%
-3.7%
1.05x -> 1.01x
10 KiB frames, level 17
-6.3%
-1.5%
1.02x -> 1.00x
10 KiB frames, level 19
-6.5%
-1.7%
0.98x -> 0.97x
1 KiB frames, level 16
-6.6%
+0.2%
1.06x -> 1.06x
whole, level 16
-4.2%
0.0%
0.85x -> 0.85x
10 KiB frames, level 1 (control)
+1.8%
+3.3%
1.06x -> 1.10x
Branch misses fall on every tree cell and not on the control. The control moved +3.3% with identical instructions on a host whose control rounds spread 7%, so the time figures are inside that run's noise and no speed change is established; the mispredict cut is.
Testing
Tests (nextest, crate and ffi-bench parity) and clippy pass locally; CI runs the full matrix.
The changes revise binary-tree pair-slot indexing to use stored indices, adjust Dfast hash seeding at the block tail, and update repeat-offset code selection. Tests cover stored-index mapping, Dfast seeding boundaries, and repeat-code selection.
BtCoords no longer stores bt_bias. The pair-index helper masks a stored index, and tests check that consecutive indices map to distinct, in-range pair slots.
Apply stored-index mapping in tree walks zstd/src/encoding/hc/generator.rs
The insertion and collection walks index pair slots from stored indices. The collection walk loads selected children after comparisons and changes its block-tail match handling.
Dfast Tail Seeding
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Summary
Seed the unscanned dense tail zstd/src/encoding/dfast/mod.rs, zstd/src/encoding/match_generator/tests.rs
Dfast seeds from the later of the clamped scan position and the dense-tail boundary. Tests check early and block-end scan stops.
The encoder selects repeat-code candidates with select_unpredictable, while retaining comparison priority, literal-length mapping, and the non-repeat fallback. Tests compare the result with a comparison chain.
structured-world/structured-zstd#639: Establishes binary-tree storage and traversal used by the optimal parser. This change updates pair-slot indexing and related tree traversal.
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This change reduces encoding work in the dfast and optimal parser paths. The author reports a few extra bytes of output at levels 3 and 4 as the cost. No actionable merge-blocking risk was found.
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After its scan the dfast matcher indexed every position from where the
scan stopped to the block's end. Upstream's loops end without that, and
on incompressible input the scan stops a step short of the end, the step
having grown to hundreds of bytes by then: hundreds of inserts a frame
that nothing searches when the frame is one block. The seed now indexes
the dense tail alone, the last starts the scan cannot reach, which the
next block may match into; the position the scan stopped at no longer
travels out of the loop.
100 KiB random at level 3: -11% cycles, -24% instructions, 1.21x -> 1.07x
of libzstd; z000033 whole and in 10 KiB frames at level 3 flat. Bytes over
the ten largest decodecorpus files: levels 1, 2 and 5 identical, levels 3
and 4 +43 / +44 of 3.1 MB.
Part of #653
After its scan the dfast matcher indexed every position from where the
scan stopped to the block's end, or the whole dense tail when it stopped
past it. Upstream's loops end without either, and on incompressible
input the scan stops a step short of the end, the step having grown to
hundreds of bytes by then: hundreds of inserts a frame that nothing
searches when the frame is one block. The seed now indexes only the
dense-tail starts the scan did not pass.
The previous commit seeded the whole tail and dropped the stop position
from the loop's exit; that changed the scan's code and cost z000033 at
level 3 +4.2% cycles (+3.1% instructions), so it is reverted here in
favour of the measured form, which keeps the scan's code as it was.
100 KiB random at level 3: -11.0% cycles, -23.8% instructions, 1.21x ->
1.07x of libzstd; z000033 whole -0.7%, in 10 KiB frames +0.5%, the L1
control flat. Bytes over the ten largest decodecorpus files: levels 1, 2
and 5 identical, levels 3 and 4 +43 / +44 of 3.1 MB.
Part of #653
The comment justifying the bytes the seed gives up quoted cycles. The
same paired run timed it: 100 KiB random at level 3, -11.0% wall-clock,
1.18x -> 1.05x of libzstd in that run; z000033 whole and in 10 KiB frames
and the level 1 control within 1%.
Part of #653
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zstd/src/encoding/blocks/compressed.rs
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zstd/src/encoding/dfast/mod.rs
zstd/src/encoding/frame_compressor/tests.rs
zstd/src/encoding/hc/optimal.rs
zstd/src/encoding/levels/config.rs
zstd/src/encoding/match_generator/mod.rs
zstd/src/encoding/match_generator/tests.rs
zstd/src/encoding/match_table/storage.rs
zstd/src/encoding/sequences/tests.rs
zstd/src/encoding/streaming_encoder.rs
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The binary tree walk addressed a node's pair as `(stored + bt_bias) &
bt_mask`, a per-block bias the loop kept live across every node, and
tested the block end on every node. Upstream does neither: the slot is
`matchIndex & btMask` and the end is tested on a new best only.
- The slot is now `stored & bt_mask`. Within one set of coordinates the
two differ by a constant rotation of the ring, so the tree keeps its
shape; the coordinates move only where no node is live (the tables are
cleared, replaced with them, or every node falls below the new window
floor), which `bt_pair_index_for_stored` documents.
- The per-node `match_len >= tail_limit` test is a `debug_assert`: the
walk enters below the limit and a new best that reaches it breaks
inside the new-best block, so a node that is not a new best cannot.
Output is identical at every level from -7 to 22 on z000033, z000088 and
random input. Instructions fall 0.3-0.8% on every tree cell (z000033 in
10 KiB and 1 KiB frames at levels 13-19, whole at 16), branch misses with
them; the cycle deltas sit inside the +2.0% the level 1 control moved, so
no time change is established.
Part of #653
The search body loaded both children of each node right after the
prefix count and kept them live through the compare and the new-best
block. Upstream reads the side it descends after the compare
(`matchIndex = nextPtr[1]`), as our insert body already does; the search
now does the same, reading the same slot later, so output is unchanged.
z000033 in small frames, five interleaved rounds: instructions -1.2 to
-1.3% on every tree cell; cycles -3.9% at level 19 in 10 KiB frames and
-3.0% at level 16 in 1 KiB frames, where the rounds of the two builds do
not overlap, against a level 1 control that moved -2.0% with identical
instructions. Levels 16 and 17 in 10 KiB frames -3.1% / -3.5% and level
13 +1.0% sit in overlapping rounds. Level 17 and 19 frames now encode
faster than libzstd in the same run (0.94x, 0.93x).
Part of #653
polaz
changed the title
perf(encode): seed only the unscanned dense tail after a dfast scan
perf(encode): trim dfast tail seeding and the tree walk's per-node work
Nov 11, 2026
The optimal parser asks, for every candidate the search returns, which
repeat code its offset takes against the position's history. It did so
with a compare chain over three repeats, an outcome the predictor cannot
learn: the last-branch record put about 110 mispredicts per 300 frames
there at level 16 over the two btultra2 passes, the parser's whole
excess over libzstd's opt2, which receives offBase ready-coded.
`encode_offset_base_with_reps` now picks the three repeat values by the
literal length and folds them with `select_unpredictable`, last to first
so the first match still wins. A test checks it against the compare
chain over every combination of nine edge values.
z000033, five interleaved rounds against the parent: branch misses
-4.2 to -6.8% on every tree cell (10 KiB frames at levels 13-19, 1 KiB
at 16, whole at 16), instructions -0.1 to -0.4%; time -1.5 to -3.7% in
10 KiB frames against a level 1 control that moved +2.7% the other way,
inside that host's spread, so no time change is established.
Part of #653
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changed the title
perf(encode): trim dfast tail seeding and the tree walk's per-node work
perf(encode): trim dfast tail seeding and the optimal parser's per-node work
Nov 11, 2026
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Summary
Changes
DfastMatchGenerator::seed_remaining_hashable_startsstarts atmax(stop position, dense tail start): the gap the scan's step skipped and the starts a match already covered stay out of the tables. Testdfast_seed_remaining_hashable_starts_skips_the_gap_and_covered_startsreplaces the one that required seeding the last start after a match reached the block's end.stored & bt_mask(upstreammatchIndex & btMask) instead of(stored + bt_bias) & bt_mask, so the walk no longer carries a per-block bias;MatchTable::bt_pair_index_for_storeddocuments why the coordinates never move while a node is live.debug_assert: a node that is not a new best cannot reach the end.BtMatcher::encode_offset_base_with_repspicks the three repeat values by the literal length and folds them withcore::hint::select_unpredictable, last to first so the first match still wins (RFC 8878 3.1.2.5). Testoffset_base_probe_matches_the_repeat_compare_chainchecks it against the compare chain over every combination of nine edge values.Measurements
Wall-clock / cycles, paired A/B of prebuilt
--profile benchbinaries against the parent revision, 5 interleaved rounds, libzstd in the same run, x86 (AVX2 + BMI2), fresh context per frame, raw skip off.dfast tail seed (time):
Bytes over the ten largest decodecorpus files (3.1 MB): levels 1, 2 and 5 identical, levels 3 and 4 +43 / +44 bytes.
Tree walk, z000033, both tree changes together against the dfast commit in one run (output identical at every level from -7 to 22):
The level 1 control, which never reaches the tree and retires the same instructions in both builds, moved -1.1%; against it every tree cell is within about a percent, so no speed change is established. The tree changes are kept as an instruction cut with output unchanged, not as a speed claim.
Repeat code, z000033, against the tree changes in one run (output identical):
Branch misses fall on every tree cell and not on the control. The control moved +3.3% with identical instructions on a host whose control rounds spread 7%, so the time figures are inside that run's noise and no speed change is established; the mispredict cut is.
Testing
Tests (nextest, crate and ffi-bench parity) and clippy pass locally; CI runs the full matrix.
Part of #653
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