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From: KAZAR Ayoub <[email protected]>
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]>
Cc: Shinya Kato <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Speed up COPY FROM text/CSV parsing using SIMD
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:36:42 +0100
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> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 18:00, KAZAR Ayoub <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Thanks for running that benchmark! Would you mind sharing a reproducer
> >> for the regression you observed?
> >
> > Of course, I attached the sql to generate the text and csv test files.
> > If having a 1/3 of line length of special characters can be an
> exaggeration, something lower might still reproduce some regressions of
> course for the same idea.
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> I am able to reproduce the regression you mentioned but both
> regressions are %20 on my end. I found that (by experimenting) SIMD
> causes a regression if it advances less than 5 characters.
>
> So, I implemented a small heuristic. It works like that:
>
> - If advance < 5 -> insert a sleep penalty (n cycles).
> - Each time advance < 5, n is doubled.
> - Each time advance ≥ 5, n is halved.
>
> I am sharing a POC patch to show heuristic, it can be applied on top
> of v1-0001. Heuristic version has the same performance improvements
> with the v1-0001 but the regression is %5 instead of %20 compared to
> the master.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nazir Bilal Yavuz
> Microsoft

Yes this is good, i'm also getting about 5% regression only now.



Regards,
Ayoub Kazar


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