lance-format / lance-format/lance

Building FTS indices does a huge amount of allocations

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Was building an FTS index on 100MB of text data, and got over 1 billion memory allocations. ^1

Here's a allocation flamegraph for indexing 1MB of data. It seems like a lot comes from serializes O(num_tokens) PostingListBuilders to Arrow RecordBatches.

There's some other small stuff like computing inverted_list_schema over and over again. That could be put in a LazyLock.

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