Streaming/incremental checkpointing in NockApps
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Description
This could straightforwardly build on #13. Currently we're copying the slab, so that doubles the peak memory usage, then we're batch-jamming the slab into a jam copy of the slab, that puts us at 3x memory usage temporarily until the save finishes and the slab + jam deallocate. This should be avoidable. It's possible that after Habit/Chaff are done and have both jam and cue implemented that we could make a streaming or incremental byte-oriented interface for progressively deallocating the slab as we fill in the jammed representation. Not super critical but a nice to have. The need for this probably goes away for now if we implement PMA/WAL/CDC for NockVM but this is easier and quicker to do.
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Research direction
Start with issue #13 and trace the current slab-copying checkpoint path; this issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Establish whether streaming or incremental byte-oriented checkpointing is still needed after Habit/Chaff and possible PMA/WAL/CDC work, then define completion as avoiding the temporary 3x memory usage during save.
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Assessment
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100