vmware / vmware/splinterdb

Evaluate Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) on the library

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Description

Hi!

Recently I tested a lot of software with PGO and measured the performance improvements from PGO - the results are here. Since my results show interesting improvements on a lot of databases I think it would be a good idea to measure PGO effects on SplinterDB as well. If the results will show an improvement - would be great to see a note in the documentation about PGO.

Since SplinterDB is a library, I think the most interesting experience for you will be my results on optimizing SQLite with PGO (see in the linked above repo as well).

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the PGO results in the linked awesome-pgo repository and determine how to measure PGO effects on SplinterDB. Done means producing comparable results for the library and, if they show an improvement, adding a note to the documentation.

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Tech stack
c
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performance
Issue type
Feature
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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