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tarantool-protobuf

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c85386b1 — Eugene Blikh 3 months ago
bench: record gcy (inline nested-message decode) post-mortem

Implemented and benchmarked the inline-nested-decode plan from
tarantool-protobuf-gcy. Test suite and JIT gate both pass, but
median-of-3 bench shows 3-8% regressions on Person 1KB/10KB/100KB
encode AND decode. Profile's "100% interpreter bail at Address_decode
call" turned out to be a vl trace-attribution artifact; LuaJIT was
already handling the call well.

Lesson recorded in bench/PERF_LOG.md so the next person who reads the
profile entry knows the obvious-looking inline transformation does
not deliver here. Code change reverted; only the writeup lands.

beads-tarantool-protobuf-gcy
9ee21c09 — Eugene Blikh 3 months ago
codegen: inline 1-byte varint length prefix at every LEN emit site

Eliminates the wire.encode_varint(#body) call + dispatch for every
length-delimited field in mode=full codegen. Profile flagged the
out[n] = wire.encode_varint(#_b) line as ~33% of hello.Person 1KB
encode time, with another ~17% in encode_varint dispatch — together
~50% of encode time. Lifting the 1-byte fast path (the dominant case
for proto strings and small message bodies) to the call site removes
the function frame entirely for lengths < 128.

Applied at every LEN emit site: singular/repeated message body,
singular/repeated string|bytes, packed scalar bundle, packed enum
bundle, map entry. Map value pieces (emitMapPiece message branch)
left as-is — they sit inside a single slot assignment that would
require a deeper restructure, and maps are not on the current hot
benchmark.

Results (hello.Person full encode, msgs/s): 10B +6.9%, 100B +7.9%,
1KB +25.7%, 10KB +48.1%, 100KB +31.9%. Decode flat (unchanged path).
Runtime mode flat (descriptor dispatch still calls encode_varint).
JIT trace gate: 37/37. Test suite: 745/745.

Bench history saved to bench/PERF_LOG.md with full numbers and the
workflow this iteration follows.

beads-tarantool-protobuf-h8v