5aad635 Use memset() to optimize prevector::resize() (Evan Klitzke)
e46be25 Reduce redundant code of prevector and speed it up (Akio Nakamura)
f0e7aa7 Add new prevector benchmarks. (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
This branch optimizes various `prevector` operations, especially resizing vectors. While profiling the `loadblk` thread I noticed that a lot of time was being spent in `prevector::resize()` which led to this work. I have some data here indicating that it takes up **37%** of the time in `ReadBlockFromDisk()`: https://monad.io/readblockfromdisk.svg
This branch improves things significantly. For trivial types, the new results for the prevector benchmark are:
* `PrevectorClearTrivial` which tests `prevector::clear()` becomes 24.6x faster
* `PrevectorDestructorTrivial` which tests `prevector::~prevector()` becomes 20.5x faster
* `PrevectorResizeTrivial` which tests `prevector::resize()` becomes 20.3x faster
Note that in practice it looks like the prevector is only used to contain `unsigned char` types, which is a trivial type. The benchmarks are testing a bit of an extreme case, but the changes here are motivated by the profiling data for `ReadBlockFromDisk()` I linked to above.
The pull request here consists of a series of three commits:
* The first adds new benchmarks but does not change the prevector code.
* The second is from @AkioNak , and merges some prevector optimizations he submitted in #11988
* The third optimizes `prevector::resize()` to use `memset()` when the prevector contains trivially constructible types
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Wladimir J. van der Laan
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