netty5/buffer
Nick Hill 10539f4dc7 Streamline CompositeByteBuf internals (#8437)
Motivation:

CompositeByteBuf is a powerful and versatile abstraction, allowing for
manipulation of large data without copying bytes. There is still a
non-negligible cost to reading/writing however relative to "singular"
ByteBufs, and this can be mostly eliminated with some rework of the
internals.

My use case is message modification/transformation while zero-copy
proxying. For example replacing a string within a large message with one
of a different length

Modifications:

- No longer slice added buffers and unwrap added slices
   - Components store target buf offset relative to position in
composite buf
   - Less allocations, object footprint, pointer indirection, offset
arithmetic
- Use Component[] rather than ArrayList<Component>
   - Avoid pointer indirection and duplicate bounds check, more
efficient backing array growth
   - Facilitates optimization when doing bulk-inserts - inserting n
ByteBufs behind m is now O(m + n) instead of O(mn)
- Avoid unnecessary casting and method call indirection via superclass
- Eliminate some duplicate range/ref checks via non-checking versions of
toComponentIndex and findComponent
- Add simple fast-path for toComponentIndex(0); add racy cache of
last-accessed Component to findComponent(int)
- Override forEachByte0(...) and forEachByteDesc0(...) methods
- Make use of RecyclableArrayList in nioBuffers(int, int) (in line with
FasterCompositeByteBuf impl)
- Modify addComponents0(boolean,int,Iterable) to use the Iterable
directly rather than copy to an array first (and possibly to an
ArrayList before that)
- Optimize addComponents0(boolean,int,ByteBuf[],int) to not perform
repeated array insertions and avoid second loop for offset updates
- Simplify other logic in various places, in particular the general
pattern used where a sub-range is iterated over
- Add benchmarks to demonstrate some improvements

While refactoring I also came across a couple of clear bugs. They are
fixed in these changes but I will open another PR with unit tests and
fixes to the current version.

Result:

Much faster creation, manipulation, and access; many fewer allocations
and smaller footprint. Benchmark results to follow.
2018-11-03 10:37:07 +01:00
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src Streamline CompositeByteBuf internals (#8437) 2018-11-03 10:37:07 +01:00
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