[robert3005]

ValidityVTable::validity has no context, and ZstdBuffers used to rebuild its wrapped array (which needs a session) to answer it. Now the validity is lifted out of the wrapped array when compressing, so it can be read straight from a slot without decompressing anything and without storing a session.

part of #9446

[codspeed]

Merging this PR will degrade performance by 21.8%

⚠️ 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.

⚠️ 19 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

• chunked_dict_primitive_into_canonical[f64, (1000, 1000, 10)]
• test_scan_filter[int_float]
• test_scan_filter[int_str_float]
• bench_compare_sliced_dict_primitive[(3333, 10000)]
• test_scan[int_str_float]
• density_sweep_dense_runs[0.001]
• test_scan_filter[int_str]
• pcodec_compress_f64
• chunked_dict_primitive_canonical_into[f64, (1000, 1000, 10)]
• test_scan[int_str]
• …and 9 more

ℹ️ 40 benchmarks have no flame graph

The flamegraph could not be generated because we failed to resolve the symbols in the profiling trace. This happens when we fail to harvest information about language frames.

• test_repeated_scan[int]
• test_scan_filter[int_float]
• test_repeated_scan_filter[int]
• test_scan_to_arrow_array[int]
• test_repeated_scan_scalar_at[int_float]
• test_repeated_scan_scalar_at[int_str_float]
• test_scan_filter[int]
• test_scan_filter[int_str_float]
• test_scan_filter_to_arrow_array[int]
• test_scan_scalar_at[int]
• …and 30 more

⚠️ Different runtime environments detected

Some benchmarks with significant performance changes were compared across different runtime environments,
which may affect the accuracy of the results.

Open the report in CodSpeed to investigate

⚡ 1 improved benchmark
❌ 8 regressed benchmarks
✅ 2399 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 12 skipped benchmarks¹

Warning

Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
❌	WallTime	threshold_neon[8]	1.4 µs	2.8 µs	-51.71%
❌	WallTime	threshold_neon[64]	2.5 µs	3.7 µs	-33.14%
❌	WallTime	filter_neon[8]	886 ns	1,194 ns	-25.8%
❌	WallTime	threshold_neon[80]	3.4 µs	4.4 µs	-22.07%
❌	WallTime	filter_neon[80]	2.5 µs	3.2 µs	-21.23%
❌	WallTime	filter_neon[64]	1.8 µs	2.1 µs	-15.63%
❌	WallTime	bitpack_blocked_compress_avx2	6.7 µs	7.6 µs	-12.17%
❌	WallTime	decode_chunked_neon[i64, 524288]	13.3 µs	14.8 µs	-10.66%
⚡	WallTime	starts_with_avx2[8, VarBin]	46.6 µs	41.5 µs	+12.38%

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Footnotes

1. 12 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩