Hi,
On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 05:25, KAZAR Ayoub <ma_kazar@esi.dz> wrote:
>
> Following Nazir's findings about 4096 bytes being the performant line length, I did more benchmarks from my side on
bothTEXT and CSV formats with two different cases of normal data (no special characters) and data with many special
characters.
>
> Results are con good as expected and similar to previous benchmarks
> ~30.9% faster copy in TEXT format
> ~32.4% faster copy in CSV format
> 20%-30% reduces cycles per instructions
>
> In the case of doing a lot of special characters in the lines (e.g., tables with large numbers of columns maybe), we
obviouslyexpect regressions here because of the overhead of many fallbacks to scalar processing.
> Results for a 1/3 of line length of special characters:
> ~43.9% slower copy in TEXT format
> ~16.7% slower copy in CSV format
> So for even less occurrences of special characters or wider distance between there might still be some regressions in
thiscase, a non-significant case maybe, but can be treated in other patches if we consider to not use SIMD path
sometimes.
>
> I hope this helps more and confirms the patch.
Thanks for running that benchmark! Would you mind sharing a reproducer
for the regression you observed?
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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft
