[Feature] Improve scan performance in hot read paths
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Description
### Search before asking
- [x] I searched in the [issues](https://github.com/apache/paimon-cpp/issues) and found nothing similar.
### Motivation
Recent profiling of highly concurrent scans has revealed several performance bottlenecks caused by
repeated operations on Arrow-returned `shared_ptr` objects in hot read loops.
Two significant cases have been identified:
1. Manifest readers repeatedly call `StructArray::fields()` while processing individual rows. This
copies `shared_ptr` objects and, with GCC 8.3's libstdc++, can introduce substantial lock
contention through `_Sp_locker`, `pthread_mutex_lock`, and futex waits when multiple workers read
manifests concurrently.
2. Avro decoding calls `ArrayBuilder::type()` for every integer and timestamp value. Because this
method returns `std::shared_ptr` by value, concurrent scans repeatedly modify reference
counts on shared Arrow primitive data types, causing cache-line contention. Profiling showed
`ArrayBuilder::type()` and shared-pointer release operations accounting for a large proportion of
samples after the manifest bottleneck was removed.
This issue tracks the broader effort to identify and eliminate similar shared-pointer operations
from scan hot paths. The goal is to cache immutable Arrow metadata at an appropriate batch, reader,
or builder lifetime, while ensuring caches are invalidated whenever the corresponding Arrow object
tree is replaced.
The expected outcome is lower synchronization and reference-counting overhead under concurrent
scans, allowing CPU time to return to actual decoding, memory copying, and buffer management.
### Solution
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### Anything else?
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### Are you willing to submit a PR?
- [x] I'm willing to submit a PR!
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by profiling the manifest reader's StructArray::fields() calls and the Avro decoder's ArrayBuilder::type() calls in concurrent scan paths. Identify the appropriate batch, reader, or builder lifetime for immutable Arrow metadata, then verify caches are invalidated when the corresponding Arrow object tree is replaced. Done means reduced shared-pointer synchronization and reference-counting overhead under concurrent scans.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100