The last structures move onto the pager, so the whole engine's storage is now
one mapped file plus the WAL.
Node ids are deliberately *not* page numbers. PLAN amendment A1 explains why:
`Node.parent`, `next`, `prev` and an internal slot's `extra` are back-pointers
by id, so copy-on-write moving a page would force every node referring to it to
move as well -- COWing one leaf cascades through the leaf level, one internal
node through its whole subtree. An in-RAM id->page table makes the table slot
the single owner of a page number, so COW has exactly one pointer to fix. It
costs one dependent load per node access and 4 bytes per node, about 5.6 MB at
100M documents, against the 64-100 bytes *per document* this milestone removes.
The overflow slab becomes extents too, so `Slot.off` for a spilled record is an
absolute file offset -- the same change documents went through.
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Two bugs, both found by measuring rather than by reading, and both worth
recording because the second one would have been invisible until the churn gate.
The reservation was a tail mark, and it cannot be: an upsert reserves tree pages
for every index *and* slab room for the document, all before one log append. The
second reserver overwrote the first one's promise and the first one's allocation
then asserted. Caught on a 512 MB load by the tripwire added in the
`reserve_for` commit, which is the entire reason that assert exists. It is a
count now, and the multi-consumer ordering is pinned by a test.
And a reservation was never released. It is scoped to one write -- taken before
the log append so the publish cannot fail -- but a tree reservation covers the
worst case of several splits while a typical insert causes none, so the promise
accumulated by a handful of pages per write and dragged the file up with it. The
data file was **1.89 GB for 512 MB of documents**; releasing the unclaimed
promise at the end of each write brings it to 551 MB, or 1.08x, which is the
extent slack and the node pages.
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Measured on one harness, 512 MB / 16 KB docs, against the in-RAM engine this
replaces:
bulk insert throughput 742.6 MB/s -> 736.4 MB/s
insertOne (sequential) 0.20 ms -> 0.22 ms
createIndex({k: 1}) 26.8 ms -> 16.5 ms
countDocuments({}) 2.1 ms -> 1.1 ms
findOne({k: 500}) indexed 0.75 ms -> 0.56 ms
find({p: range}).count() 6.6 ms -> 4.6 ms
aggregate $group by k 5.8 ms -> 3.8 ms
updateMany({k: 7}, {$inc}) 1.2 ms -> 1.0 ms
Reads gain from one contiguous mapping; the two write rows are within noise of
flat. RSS is still unchanged and still cannot improve, for the reason given in
the previous commit: every open replays the whole log and rebuilds everything.
The dev harnesses each open their own data file now. `zig build fuzz` caught all
four of them, again.
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