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# arenaskl
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Fast, lock-free, arena-based Skiplist implementation in Go that supports iteration
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in both directions.
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## Advantages
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Arenaskl offers several advantages over other skiplist implementations:
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* High performance that linearly scales with the number of cores. This is
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achieved by allocating from a fixed-size arena and by avoiding locks.
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* Iterators that can be allocated on the stack and easily cloned by value.
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* Simple-to-use and low overhead model for detecting and handling race conditions
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with other threads.
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* Support for iterating in reverse (i.e. previous links).
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## Limitations
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The advantages come at a cost that prevents arenaskl from being a general-purpose
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skiplist implementation:
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* The size of the arena sets a hard upper bound on the combined size of skiplist
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nodes, keys, and values. This limit includes even the size of deleted nodes,
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keys, and values.
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* Deletion is not supported. Instead, higher-level code is expected to
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add deletion tombstones and needs to process those tombstones
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appropriately.
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## Pedigree
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This code is based on Andy Kimball's arenaskl code:
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https://github.com/andy-kimball/arenaskl
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The arenaskl code is based on the skiplist found in Badger, a Go-based
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KV store:
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https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger/tree/master/skl
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The skiplist in Badger is itself based on a C++ skiplist built for
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Facebook's RocksDB:
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https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/tree/master/memtable
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## Benchmarks
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The benchmarks consist of a mix of reads and writes executed in parallel. The
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fraction of reads is indicated in the run name: "frac_X" indicates a run where
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X percent of the operations are reads.
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The results are much better than `skiplist` and `slist`.
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```
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name time/op
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ReadWrite/frac_0-8 470ns ±11%
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ReadWrite/frac_10-8 462ns ± 3%
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ReadWrite/frac_20-8 436ns ± 2%
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ReadWrite/frac_30-8 410ns ± 2%
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ReadWrite/frac_40-8 385ns ± 2%
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ReadWrite/frac_50-8 360ns ± 4%
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ReadWrite/frac_60-8 386ns ± 1%
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ReadWrite/frac_70-8 352ns ± 2%
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ReadWrite/frac_80-8 306ns ± 3%
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ReadWrite/frac_90-8 253ns ± 4%
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ReadWrite/frac_100-8 28.1ns ± 2%
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```
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Note that the above numbers are for concurrent operations using 8x
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parallelism. The same benchmarks without concurrency (use these
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numbers when comparing vs batchskl):
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```
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name time/op
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ReadWrite/frac_0 1.53µs ± 1%
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ReadWrite/frac_10 1.46µs ± 2%
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ReadWrite/frac_20 1.39µs ± 3%
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ReadWrite/frac_30 1.28µs ± 3%
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ReadWrite/frac_40 1.21µs ± 2%
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ReadWrite/frac_50 1.11µs ± 3%
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ReadWrite/frac_60 1.23µs ±17%
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ReadWrite/frac_70 1.16µs ± 4%
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ReadWrite/frac_80 959ns ± 3%
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ReadWrite/frac_90 738ns ± 5%
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ReadWrite/frac_100 81.9ns ± 2%
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```
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Forward and backward iteration are also fast:
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```
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name time/op
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IterNext 3.97ns ± 5%
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IterPrev 3.88ns ± 3%
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```
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