Re: Supporting SJIS as a database encoding - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 09/08/2016 09:35 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> Returning in UTF-8 bloats the result string by about 1.5 times so
> it doesn't seem to make sense comparing with it. But it takes
> real = 47.35s.

Nice!

I was hoping that this would also make the binaries smaller. A few dozen 
kB of storage is perhaps not a big deal these days, but still. And 
smaller tables would also consume less memory and CPU cache.

I removed the #include "../../Unicode/utf8_to_sjis.map" line, so that 
the old table isn't included anymore, compiled, and ran "strip 
utf8_and_sjis.so". Without this patch, it's 126 kB, and with it, it's 
160 kB. So the radix tree takes a little bit more space.

That's not too bad, and I'm sure we could live with that, but with a few 
simple tricks, we could do better. First, since all the values we store 
in the tree are < 0xffff, we could store them in int16 instead of int32, 
and halve the size of the table right off the bat. That won't work for 
all encodings, of course, but it might be worth it to have two versions 
of the code, one for int16 and another for int32.

Another trick is to eliminate redundancies in the tables. Many of the 
tables contain lots of zeros, as in:

>   /*   c3xx */{
>     /*   c380 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /*   c388 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /*   c390 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x817e,
>     /*   c398 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /*   c3a0 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /*   c3a8 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /*   c3b0 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x8180,
>     /*   c3b8 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000
>   },

and

>   /* e388xx */{
>     /* e38880 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /* e38888 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /* e38890 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /* e38898 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /* e388a0 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /* e388a8 */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /* e388b0 */ 0x0000, 0xfa58, 0x878b, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
>     /* e388b8 */ 0x0000, 0x878c, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000
>   },

You could overlay the last row of the first table, which is all zeros, 
with the first row of the second table, which is also all zeros. (Many 
of the tables have a lot more zero-rows than this example.)

But yes, this patch looks very promising in general. I think we should 
switch over to radix trees for the all the encodings.

- Heikki