From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] strmap: add strdup_strings option
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:41:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BGJK4C7U+-MB-+TUgFAuuFJKE-E7y17FFJDRTyFydVX2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200821200121.GF1165@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 1:01 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 06:52:28PM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
>
> > From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> >
> > Just as it is sometimes useful for string_list to duplicate and take
> > ownership of memory management of the strings it contains, the same is
> > sometimes true for strmaps as well. Add the same flag from string_list
> > to strmap.
>
> This is actually one of the ugliest parts of string_list, IMHO, and I'd
> prefer if we can avoid duplicating it. Yes, sometimes we can manage to
> avoid an extra copy of a string. But the resulting ownership and
> lifetime questions are often very error-prone. In other data structures
> we've moved towards just having the structure own its data (e.g.,
> strvec does so, and things like oidmap store their own oids). I've been
> happy with the simplicity of it.
>
> It also works if you use a flex-array for the key storage in the
> strmap_entry. :)
I can see how it's easier, but that worries me about the number of
extra copies for my usecase. In order to minimize actual computation,
I track an awful lot of auxiliary data in merge-ort so that I know
when I can safely perform many different case-specific optimizations.
Among other things, this means 15 strmaps. 1 of those stores a
mapping from all paths that traverse_trees() walks over (file or
directory) to metadata about the content on the three different sides.
9 of the remaining 14 simply share the strings in the main strmap,
because I don't need extra copies of the paths in the repository. I
could (and maybe should) extend that to 11 of the 14. Only 3 actually
do need to store a copy of the paths (because they store data used
beyond the end of an inner recursive merge or can be used to
accelerate subsequent commits in a rebase or cherry-pick sequence).
So, in most my cases, I don't want to duplicate strings. I actually
started my implementation using FLEX_ALLOC_STR(), as you suggested
earlier in this thread, but tossed it because of this same desire to
not duplicate strings but just share them between the strmaps.
Granted, I made that decision before I had a complete implementation,
so I didn't measure the actual costs. It's possible that was a
premature optimization.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-21 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 144+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-21 18:52 [PATCH 0/5] Add struct strmap and associated utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-21 18:52 ` [PATCH 1/5] hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-21 19:22 ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 18:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] strmap: new utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-21 19:48 ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 18:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] strmap: add more " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-21 19:58 ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 18:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] strmap: add strdup_strings option Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-21 20:01 ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 20:41 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2020-08-21 21:03 ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 22:25 ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-28 7:08 ` Jeff King
2020-08-28 17:20 ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-21 18:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-21 20:10 ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 20:51 ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-21 21:05 ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 20:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] Add struct strmap and associated utility functions Jeff King
2020-08-21 21:33 ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-21 22:28 ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-28 7:03 ` Jeff King
2020-08-28 15:29 ` Elijah Newren
2020-09-01 9:27 ` Jeff King
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 12:50 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 19:55 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 16:26 ` Jeff King
2020-11-03 16:48 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] hashmap: adjust spacing to fix argument alignment Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 12:51 ` Jeff King
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] hashmap: allow re-use after hashmap_free() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 13:35 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 15:37 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 16:08 ` Jeff King
2020-11-03 16:16 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] hashmap: introduce a new hashmap_partial_clear() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 13:41 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 16:03 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 16:10 ` Jeff King
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] strmap: new utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 14:12 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 16:26 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] strmap: add more " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 14:23 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 16:43 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 16:12 ` Jeff King
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 14:27 ` Jeff King
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 14:39 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 17:28 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 16:20 ` Jeff King
2020-11-03 16:46 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] strmap: add a strset sub-type Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 14:44 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 18:02 ` Elijah Newren
2020-10-13 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] strmap: enable allocations to come from a mem_pool Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-10-30 14:56 ` Jeff King
2020-10-30 19:31 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 16:24 ` Jeff King
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] Add struct strmap and associated utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] hashmap: adjust spacing to fix argument alignment Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] hashmap: allow re-use after hashmap_free() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] hashmap: introduce a new hashmap_partial_clear() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] hashmap: provide deallocation function names Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] strmap: new utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] strmap: add more " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-04 20:13 ` Jeff King
2020-11-04 20:24 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-04 20:21 ` Jeff King
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] strmap: add a strset sub-type Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-04 20:31 ` Jeff King
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] strmap: enable allocations to come from a mem_pool Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] strmap: take advantage of FLEXPTR_ALLOC_STR when relevant Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-04 20:43 ` Jeff King
2020-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] Use new HASHMAP_INIT macro to simplify hashmap initialization Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-04 20:48 ` Jeff King
2020-11-04 20:52 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] Add struct strmap and associated utility functions Jeff King
2020-11-04 22:20 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] hashmap: adjust spacing to fix argument alignment Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] hashmap: allow re-use after hashmap_free() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] hashmap: introduce a new hashmap_partial_clear() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] hashmap: provide deallocation function names Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] strmap: new utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] strmap: add more " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] strmap: add a strset sub-type Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] strmap: enable allocations to come from a mem_pool Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] strmap: take advantage of FLEXPTR_ALLOC_STR when relevant Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 0:22 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] Use new HASHMAP_INIT macro to simplify hashmap initialization Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-05 13:29 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] Add struct strmap and associated utility functions Jeff King
2020-11-05 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-05 21:17 ` Jeff King
2020-11-05 21:22 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-05 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 00/15] " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] hashmap: adjust spacing to fix argument alignment Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] hashmap: allow re-use after hashmap_free() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] hashmap: introduce a new hashmap_partial_clear() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] hashmap: provide deallocation function names Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] strmap: new utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] strmap: add more " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] strmap: split create_entry() out of strmap_put() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] strmap: add a strset sub-type Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] strmap: enable allocations to come from a mem_pool Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 17:33 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-11 18:49 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 19:01 ` Jeff King
2020-11-11 20:34 ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] strmap: take advantage of FLEXPTR_ALLOC_STR when relevant Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] Use new HASHMAP_INIT macro to simplify hashmap initialization Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] shortlog: use strset from strmap.h Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-06 2:00 ` [PATCH v5 00/15] Add struct strmap and associated utility functions Junio C Hamano
2020-11-06 2:42 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-06 2:48 ` Jeff King
2020-11-06 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 01/15] hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 02/15] hashmap: adjust spacing to fix argument alignment Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 03/15] hashmap: allow re-use after hashmap_free() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 04/15] hashmap: introduce a new hashmap_partial_clear() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 05/15] hashmap: provide deallocation function names Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 06/15] strmap: new utility functions Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 07/15] strmap: add more " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 08/15] strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 09/15] strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 10/15] strmap: split create_entry() out of strmap_put() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 11/15] strmap: add a strset sub-type Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 12/15] strmap: enable allocations to come from a mem_pool Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 13/15] strmap: take advantage of FLEXPTR_ALLOC_STR when relevant Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 14/15] Use new HASHMAP_INIT macro to simplify hashmap initialization Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:02 ` [PATCH v6 15/15] shortlog: use strset from strmap.h Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 20:07 ` [PATCH v6 00/15] Add struct strmap and associated utility functions Jeff King
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