Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1555#discussion_r15334976 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/CompactBuffer.scala --- @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with + * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. + * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 + * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with + * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +package org.apache.spark.util.collection + +/** + * An append-only buffer similar to ArrayBuffer, but more memory-efficient for small buffers. + * ArrayBuffer always allocates an Object array to store the data, with 16 entries by default, + * so it has about 80-100 bytes of overhead. In contrast, CompactBuffer can keep up to two + * elements in fields of the main object, and only allocates an Array[AnyRef] if there are more + * entries than that. This makes it more efficient for operations like groupBy where we expect + * some keys to have very few elements. + */ +private[spark] class CompactBuffer[T] extends Seq[T] with Serializable { + // First two elements + private var element0: T = _ + private var element1: T = _ + + // Number of elements, including our two in the main object + private var curSize = 0 + + // Array for extra elements + private var otherElements: Array[AnyRef] = null + + def apply(position: Int): T = { + if (position < 0 || position >= curSize) { + throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException + } + if (position == 0) { + element0 + } else if (position == 1) { + element1 + } else { + otherElements(position - 2).asInstanceOf[T] + } + } + + def update(position: Int, value: T): Unit = { + if (position < 0 || position >= curSize) { + throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException + } + if (position == 0) { + element0 = value + } else if (position == 1) { + element1 = value + } else { + otherElements(position - 2) = value.asInstanceOf[AnyRef] + } + } + + def += (value: T): CompactBuffer[T] = { + val newIndex = curSize + if (newIndex == 0) { + element0 = value + curSize = 1 + } else if (newIndex == 1) { + element1 = value + curSize = 2 + } else { + growToSize(curSize + 1) + otherElements(newIndex - 2) = value.asInstanceOf[AnyRef] + } + this + } + + def ++= (values: TraversableOnce[T]): CompactBuffer[T] = { + values match { + case compactBuf: CompactBuffer[T] => --- End diff -- does CompactBuffer[T] here trigger a compile time warning due to erasure? Maybe CompactBuffer[_] ?
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