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With recent improvements, the run-time performance of vector-stencil
HAMTs for immutable hash tables seems close enough (on
microbenchmarks) to the Patricia-trie implementation to be worthwhile,
since they use less memory. Performance remains better in most cases
than the traditional Racket implementation.
The table at the end of this message summarizes relative performance
on microbenchmarks. Overall, though, immutable hash-table operations
are already so fast that these difference very rarely translate to
measurable differences in overall run times --- not even for the macro
expander, which relies heavily on immutable hash tables to represent
scope sets.
Stencil-vector HAMTs tend to take about 1/3 the space of Patricia
tries, and those space savings can turn into run-time improvements in
applications by reducing GC time. I've observed a 10% reduction in
compile time for some programs. When building a full Racket
distribution, run time shrinks by about 2 minutes out of 80 minutes,
probbaly because just average memory use goes down by 10%. DrRacket's
initial memory footprint goes down by about 37M out of 657M (a 5%
savings).
Mincrobenchmark relative performance, normalized to previous Racket CS
implementation (measured on 2018 MacBook Pro, 2.7 GHz Core i7; Chez
Scheme can substitute POPCNT instructions at link time):
patricia = previous Racket CS implementation as a Patricia Trie
stencil = new Racket CS implementation as a stencil-vector HAMT
racket = traditional Racket implementation
patricia stencil racket
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set-many:eqv: ==| ==|== ==|=========
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set-in-empty:equal: ==| ==|== ==|===
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