pingcap / pingcap/tiflash

Many wasteful copies of `Settings`

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Description

Enhancement

The size of Settings is 2976 bytes in the current master codebase.
However, there are many wasteful copies of Settings.

For example, the Settings is copied in ExpressionAnalyzer, ExpressionActionsChain, and ExpressionActions.
Settings in ExpressionActionsChain is just used to copy to ExpressionActions.
And only two variables in Settings are used in ExpressionActions which are max_temporary_columns and max_temporary_non_const_columns.

In view of the fact that ExpressionActions has a high frequency of use during compiling, we should avoid copying Settings.

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Research direction

Start by tracing how Settings is copied through ExpressionAnalyzer, ExpressionActionsChain, and ExpressionActions. Confirm which Settings values ExpressionActions actually uses, especially max_temporary_columns and max_temporary_non_const_columns. Done means redundant Settings copies are avoided while preserving the existing behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend, performance
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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