operator== of views (view/view, view/json, and editable documents) built two
vectors of members for every object it entered, sorted them with stable_sort
for every object, and converted each number to a basic_json value. It now:
- keeps the members of all open objects in one vector (reserved with
geometric growth, so that nested objects do not reallocate), and orders
them by insertion sort for up to 16 members, or not at all when the keys
ascend already;
- compares numbers of one type directly, and builds a basic_json only for
numbers of different types;
- compares short texts (keys, numbers, most strings) with two overlapping
loads (bytes_equal(), in node.hpp);
- first walks both documents in lockstep, in the order of their text, which
finds most pairs of equal values without the work of the comparison. The
walk only enters an object if the comparison would visit its members in the
same order (the object type keeps the order, the keys ascend, or all values
are scalars), so a difference is never found later than before, and it
records the containers it found different, so that the comparison does not
walk them again;
- rejects values of different types and arrays of different sizes before any
of this, and, for an object type that keeps the order, objects whose first
(up to four) members have different keys, which ends a comparison that
differs near the start without preparing the members.
Results are unchanged: numbers compare by value across types, duplicate keys
resolve as parse() resolves them, and objects compare in document order for
ordered_json and by key otherwise.
Instructions of one comparison of a document with an equal copy, macOS arm64
(develop -> now), json_document / ordered_json_document / editable:
twitter 16.1M -> 7.0M 17.7M -> 1.5M 16.6M -> 7.3M
citm 45.0M -> 3.4M 47.0M -> 3.2M 45.7M -> 4.3M
canada 111.4M -> 13.7M 111.4M -> 13.7M 113.3M -> 15.0M
jeopardy 26.2M -> 3.7M 27.3M -> 3.7M 26.6M -> 12.1M
and of a view with a basic_json value:
twitter 11.4M -> 5.9M 11.2M -> 7.3M 11.6M -> 5.9M
citm 33.9M -> 9.7M 32.6M -> 9.1M 34.6M -> 9.8M
canada 92.9M -> 32.1M 92.9M -> 32.1M 93.9M -> 32.8M
and Linux instruction counts (GCC 13 / Clang 18) of the same comparisons:
document with an equal copy json_document ordered_json_document editable
twitter -49 % / -52 % -89 % / -89 % -48 % / -50 %
citm -90 % / -89 % -91 % / -90 % -88 % / -87 %
jeopardy (4,000 questions) -85 % / -85 % -86 % / -86 % -46 % / -49 %
view with a basic_json value
twitter -41 % / -45 % -28 % / -35 % -45 % / -44 %
citm -63 % / -65 % -63 % / -66 % -65 % / -64 %
jeopardy -39 % / -43 % -14 % / -24 % -44 % / -43 %
A sweep that places one difference at about 2,100 positions of eight
documents (a token at an even spacing, the first and last tokens, the first,
middle and last member of the root removed, one appended, the document
wrapped) in five kinds of comparison (view/view of read-only and of editable
documents, view/json, json_document, editable/view) finds the same results as
before and no placement slower on the Mac (Clang); on Linux no placement is
slower than 3 % (Clang and GCC).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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