Store primitive GC arrays as raw byte buffers - #9051
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This PR ends up causing quite a bit of churn, but it makes implementing multibyte load/stores from numeric arrays pretty easy compared to my original PR. This PR should also use less memory for numeric arrays and be faster for most operations on them. In some follow up PRs, we could also move strings into the vectors to make them more efficient. I also explored a few other ways of implementing this:
If anyone thinks we should just land my other PR or has other thoughts on how to do this let me know. |
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I'm confused. Does this PR change how strings are implemented, and not just numeric arrays? If not, why is this code changing?
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What is p in these? Perhaps add a comment?
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Perhaps assert that the byte size is less than 16 from two lines ago? Some day we may get larger types...
GCData previously represented all allocations using a vector of Literals. Storing numeric array elements this way introduces unnecessary memory overhead and prevents efficient byte-level operations. Represent primitive numeric GC arrays using a raw byte buffer in GCData while preserving Literals storage for reference arrays and structs.
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GCData previously represented all allocations using a vector of Literals. Storing numeric array elements this way introduces unnecessary memory overhead and prevents efficient byte-level operations.
Represent primitive numeric GC arrays using a raw byte buffer in GCData while preserving Literals storage for reference arrays and structs.