codegen: inline proto2 extension writers/readers (qwt) + table.new(N,0) for packed lists (2sn)
qwt closes the proto2_basic.BenchPayload `min` bench's worst data point:
encode 1.89M → 3.30M msgs/s (+75%), decode 1.02M → 1.26M msgs/s (+23%).
Mechanism: collectExtsByExtendee groups all `extend Foo { ... }`
declarations by extendee FullName across input files; emitInlineEncode
emits one dedicated writer per extension instead of dispatching through
pb.codec.encode_field, and emitInlineDecode adds an elseif arm per
extension id straight into result._extensions[full_name]. Dynamic
extensions_list walk preserved for forward compat, gated on
#_elist > N so it pays one int compare when no runtime extension was
registered.
2sn pre-sizes packed-scalar repeated lists via table.new(N, 0) where
the count is recoverable from the LEN payload — exact (lim >> 2 or
lim >> 3) for fixed-width, upper bound (lim) for varint-packed. The
allocation is deferred into the `if wt == 2 then` branch so the
per-element fallback and non-packable types keep the bare-`{}`
alloc. Avoids u39's regression mode because the call cost is paid
once per repeated-field-first-occurrence, not per message decode.
Bench summary for hello.Person full mode: encode +3-5% across sizes,
decode +1-3% across sizes. Tests: 752/752 pure-Lua, 1043/1043 with
PB_ENABLE_C=1, JIT 37/37. PERF_LOG entry covers the rationale and
caveats.
codegen: inline 1-byte LEN fast path for string/bytes decode
Singular and repeated string/bytes fields in generated full-mode _decode
now read the length byte and dispatch in-line instead of calling
wire.decode_string / wire.decode_bytes. For length < 128 (the common
short-string RPC case), the path stays inside the parent JIT trace:
no child-trace stitch, no per-element function frame, utf8_len lookup
hoisted to a generated-file upvalue.
The original a6n design — one ffi.cast(U8CP, buf) at the top of each
_decode — was abandoned: the cdata wrapper is 24 bytes per call and
LuaJIT can't sink the allocation because the pointer local lives
across wire.decode_* call frames. Net regression at small sizes
(+11-16%) overwhelmed the single-byte-read savings.
Bench (hello.Person full-mode decode):
size ns/op before ns/op after delta
10B 419 390 -6.9%
100B 515 478 -7.2%
1KB 9004 8042 -10.7%
10KB 64644 56745 -12.2%
100KB 625638 537750 -14.0%
Zero allocation impact across all sizes. Tests: 1043 pass, 37 JIT
trace gates pass. (a6n)
c_runtime: 64-bit cdata fidelity tests (ra6 3l)
Adds the c_int64.Wide fixture (one singular field per 64-bit kind)
plus an 18-test luatest group that round-trips each kind past 2^53
through the C runtime in both codegen modes. Confirms encode accepts
both LuaJIT int64_t/uint64_t cdata and Lua numbers, and decode
surfaces values >DBL_INT_MAX as cdata (matching msgpackffi /
net.box / box.tuple / built-in protobuf convention).
The C runtime already had the dispatch — to_int64_at / to_uint64_at
flow through luaL_toint64 / luaL_touint64 for cdata inputs, and
dec_push_one calls luaL_pushint64 / luaL_pushuint64 for every 64-bit
kind. This change pins the behavior under acceptance.
Closes tarantool-protobuf-awv (ra6 3l)