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tantivy/bitpacker/src/lib.rs
Pascal Seitz 25b9429929 calc mem_usage of more structs
calc mem_usage of more structs in index creation
add some comments
2021-04-30 14:16:39 +02:00

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mod bitpacker;
mod blocked_bitpacker;
pub use crate::bitpacker::BitPacker;
pub use crate::bitpacker::BitUnpacker;
pub use crate::blocked_bitpacker::BlockedBitpacker;
/// Computes the number of bits that will be used for bitpacking.
///
/// In general the target is the minimum number of bits
/// required to express the amplitude given in argument.
///
/// e.g. If the amplitude is 10, we can store all ints on simply 4bits.
///
/// The logic is slightly more convoluted here as for optimization
/// reasons, we want to ensure that a value spawns over at most 8 bytes
/// of aligned bytes.
///
/// Spanning over 9 bytes is possible for instance, if we do
/// bitpacking with an amplitude of 63 bits.
/// In this case, the second int will start on bit
/// 63 (which belongs to byte 7) and ends at byte 15;
/// Hence 9 bytes (from byte 7 to byte 15 included).
///
/// To avoid this, we force the number of bits to 64bits
/// when the result is greater than `64-8 = 56 bits`.
///
/// Note that this only affects rare use cases spawning over
/// a very large range of values. Even in this case, it results
/// in an extra cost of at most 12% compared to the optimal
/// number of bits.
pub fn compute_num_bits(n: u64) -> u8 {
let amplitude = (64u32 - n.leading_zeros()) as u8;
if amplitude <= 64 - 8 {
amplitude
} else {
64
}
}