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`PreparedWrite` models a set of per-chunk changes that would be applied to a stored chunk. `SupportsChunkPacking` is a protocol for array -> bytes codecs that can use `PreparedWrite` objects to update an existing chunk.
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@TomAugspurger how would this design work with CUDA codecs? |
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This PR defines a new codec pipeline class called
PhasedCodecPipelinethat enables much higher performance for chunk encoding and decoding than the currentBatchedCodecPipeline.The approach here is to completely ignore how the v3 spec defines array -> bytes codecs 😆. Instead of treating codecs as functions that mix IO and compute, we treat codec encoding and decoding as a sequence:
fetch exactly what we need to fetch from storage, given the codecs we have. So if there's a sharding codec in the first array->bytes position, the codec pipeline knows it must fetch the shard index, then fetch the involved subchunks, before passing them to compute.
Basically, we use the first array -> bytes codec to figure out what kind of preparatory IO and final IO we need to perform, and the rest of the codecs to figure out what kind of chunk encoding we need to do. Separating IO from compute in different phases makes things simpler and faster.
Happy to chat more about this direction. IMO the spec should be re-written with this framing, because it makes much more sense than trying to shoe-horn sharding in as a codec.
I don't want to make our benchmarking suite any bigger but on my laptop this codec pipeline is 2-5x faster than the batchedcodec pipeline for a lot of workloads. I can include some of those benchmarks later.
This was mostly written by claude, based on previous work in #3719. All these changes should be non-breaking, so I think this is in principle safe for us to play around with in a patch or minor release.