clockworklabs / clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB

Consider doing a single memcopy for a list of rows where the row type has no padding in the bflatn layout

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Description

Improving on the case of StaticBsatnLayout.

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Research direction

Start by reading the StaticBsatnLayout implementation and the surrounding bflatn layout code. Determine how rows are currently copied and what conditions identify a row type without padding; the work is done when that case can use one copy operation for a list of rows and the existing layout behavior remains correct.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
databases, performance
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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