Automatically Transforming Arrays to Columnar Storage at Run Time
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
MPLR '22: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes
Original Kurzfassung:
Picking the right data structure for the right job is one of the key challenges for every developer. However, especially in the realm of object-oriented programming, the memory layout of data structures is often still suboptimal for certain data access patterns, due to objects being scattered across the heap. Therefore, this work presents an approach for the automated transformation of arrays of objects into a contiguous format (called columnar arrays). At run time, we identify suitable arrays, perform the transformation and use a dynamic compiler to gain performance improvements. In the evaluation, we show that our approach can improve the performance of certain queries over large, uniform arrays.
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