Audit tests for duplication and coverage

[robert3005]

Some of the tests covered duplicate logic, they haven't been updated to latest helper functions or simply didn't check the correct thing. This should have audited all of the tests we have in the repo and fix them without losing coverage

[codspeed]

Merging this PR will degrade performance by 1.12%

⚠️ Unknown Walltime execution environment detected

Using the Walltime instrument on standard Hosted Runners will lead to inconsistent data.

For the most accurate results, we recommend using CodSpeed Macro Runners: bare-metal machines fine-tuned for performance measurement consistency.

⚠️ 1 benchmark measured no execution time

Nothing ran under measurement, usually because the compiler removed the code under test. This result is not comparable, so it counts as unchanged.

Preventing compiler optimizations

• bench_compare_primitive[(10000, 2)]

⚠️ 10 benchmarks spent significant time in system calls

System calls cannot be consistently instrumented, so they are not included in the measure, which understates the real cost. Please switch to the Walltime instrument to accurately measure system calls.

Measurement and system calls

• random_i128[0.01]
• decompress[u32, (1000, 256)]
• decompress[u16, (4000, 256)]
• take_varbin
• filter_run_end[len=4096_run=16_density=0.1]
• zstd_compress_string
• pcodec_compress_f64
• multipolygon_mixed_validity
• from_vec_drop_vortex[65536]
• bench_compare_primitive[(10000, 2)]

⚡ 4 improved benchmarks
❌ 3 regressed benchmarks
✅ 2206 untouched benchmarks
🗄️ 43 archived benchmarks run¹

Warning

Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
❌	Simulation	decode_primitives[i64, (1000, 32)]	25.4 µs	37.1 µs	-31.52%
❌	WallTime	starts_with_avx2[8, VarBin]	41 µs	47 µs	-12.72%
❌	WallTime	bitpack_blocked_compress_avx2	6.8 µs	7.6 µs	-10.28%
⚡	WallTime	filter_avx2[64]	2.5 µs	2.1 µs	+16.46%
⚡	WallTime	filter_avx2[8]	1.2 µs	1 µs	+16.24%
⚡	WallTime	filter_avx2[80]	2.6 µs	2.3 µs	+13.89%
⚡	WallTime	compare_u8_neon	2 µs	1.8 µs	+11.8%

Tip

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Footnotes

1. 43 benchmarks were run, but are now archived. If they were deleted in another branch, consider rebasing to remove them from the report. Instead if they were added back, click here to restore them. ↩