Hi
Looks like a great finding to me, this is indeed a useless check, thanks!
Have you any figures on the performance enhancement ? It might help to
get proper approval as gcc is currently in dev stage 4 that is to say
only bug fixes normally.
François
On 17/01/2024 09:11, Huanghui Nie wrote:
Hi.
When I implemented a hash table with reference to the C++ STL, I found
that when the hash table in the C++ STL deletes elements, if the first
element deleted is the begin element, the before begin node is
repeatedly assigned. This creates unnecessary performance overhead.
First, let’s see the code implementation:
In _M_remove_bucket_begin, _M_before_begin._M_nxt is assigned when
&_M_before_begin == _M_buckets[__bkt]. That also means
_M_buckets[__bkt]->_M_nxt is assigned under some conditions.
_M_remove_bucket_begin is called by _M_erase and _M_extract_node:
1. Case _M_erase a range: _M_remove_bucket_begin is called in a for
loop when __is_bucket_begin is true. And if __is_bucket_begin is
true and &_M_before_begin == _M_buckets[__bkt], __prev_n must be
&_M_before_begin. __prev_n->_M_nxt is always assigned in _M_erase.
That means _M_before_begin._M_nxt is always assigned, if
_M_remove_bucket_begin is called and &_M_before_begin ==
_M_buckets[__bkt]. So there’s no need to assign
_M_before_begin._M_nxt in _M_remove_bucket_begin.
2. Other cases: _M_remove_bucket_begin is called when __prev_n ==
_M_buckets[__bkt]. And __prev_n->_M_nxt is always assigned in
_M_erase and _M_before_begin. That means _M_buckets[__bkt]->_M_nxt
is always assigned. So there's no need to assign
_M_buckets[__bkt]->_M_nxt in _M_remove_bucket_begin.
In summary, there’s no need to check &_M_before_begin ==
_M_buckets[__bkt] and assign _M_before_begin._M_nxt in
_M_remove_bucket_begin.
Then let’s see the responsibility of each method:
The hash table in the C++ STL is composed of hash buckets and a node
list. The update of the node list is responsible for _M_erase and
_M_extract_node method. _M_remove_bucket_begin method only needs to
update the hash buckets. The update of _M_before_begin belongs to the
update of the node list. So _M_remove_bucket_begin doesn’t need to
update _M_before_begin.
Existing tests listed below cover this change:
23_containers/unordered_set/allocator/copy.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/allocator/copy_assign.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/allocator/move.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/allocator/move_assign.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/allocator/swap.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/erase/1.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/erase/24061-set.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/modifiers/extract.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/operations/count.cc
23_containers/unordered_set/requirements/exception/basic.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/allocator/copy.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/allocator/copy_assign.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/allocator/move.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/allocator/move_assign.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/allocator/swap.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/erase/1.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/erase/24061-map.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/modifiers/extract.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/modifiers/move_assign.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/operations/count.cc
23_containers/unordered_map/requirements/exception/basic.cc
Regression tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. Is it OK to commit?
---
ChangeLog:
libstdc++: hashtable: No need to update before begin node in
_M_remove_bucket_begin
2024-01-16Huanghui Nie<nnn...@gmail.com>
gcc/
* libstdc++-v3/include/bits/hashtable.h
---
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/hashtable.h
b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/hashtable.h
index b48610036fa..6056639e663 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/hashtable.h
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/hashtable.h
@@ -872,13 +872,10 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
if (!__next_n || __next_bkt != __bkt)
{
// Bucket is now empty
- // First update next bucket if any
+ // Update next bucket if any
if (__next_n)
_M_buckets[__next_bkt] = _M_buckets[__bkt];
- // Second update before begin node if necessary
- if (&_M_before_begin == _M_buckets[__bkt])
- _M_before_begin._M_nxt = __next_n;
_M_buckets[__bkt] = nullptr;
}
}
