perf(zipper): make the single-thread path lightweight and CPU-efficient (#762) - #836
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ChangesZipper output compression
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In `@src/lib/commands/zipper.rs`:
- Around line 1135-1183: Add focused coverage for the scheduling branch around
process_raw, running identical inputs with threads set to 0, 1, and 2. Decode
and compare output records and error results across all runs, preserving
ordering and validating equivalent error propagation; flag any missing coverage
if the test infrastructure cannot exercise these paths.
- Around line 849-879: Add a Unix-only test covering a non-regular existing
output path, such as /dev/null or a FIFO, so output_is_stream() evaluates its
metadata branch; assert that resolved_compression_level() returns 0 when no
explicit compression level is set, while preserving the existing stdout and
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…nt (#762) zipper is a streaming step (`aligner | fgumi zipper | fgumi sort`) and should sip one core, but at `--threads 1` it spawned two producer reader threads and deflated an output that `sort` immediately recompresses — ~2-3 cores, ~2 GB RSS, and ~28% of CPU burned on redundant compression. On a 6M-record stream this landed at ~22.7 CPU-s across ~2 cores at 2 GB. Two changes make it lean: - Output-aware compression default. `--compression-level` now defaults to 0 (uncompressed BGZF, no DEFLATE) when the output is a stream — stdout, a FIFO, or process substitution — the pipeline case where the bytes flow straight into `sort` and get recompressed there. A regular-file output still defaults to 1 (a sane on-disk size); a not-yet-created path is treated as the file it is about to become. An explicit `--compression-level` always wins. - Single-core fast path. At `--threads <= 1` both inputs are read inline on the calling thread with no producer threads, so the whole command is one core with a minimal footprint; the OS pipe buffer decouples it from the aligner and reading inline backpressures the aligner naturally. `--threads >= 2` keeps the reader threads so a slow consumer never stalls the input pipe. Result on the same 6M-record stream at `--threads 1`: ~10.5 CPU-s on ~1 core at 19 MiB RSS — roughly half the CPU, one core instead of ~2-3, and ~100x less memory, at the same wall. Output is byte-identical across thread counts and compression is content-identical.
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Closes #762.
Problem
fgumi zipperis a streaming step —aligner | fgumi zipper | fgumi sort— so it should sip one core and stay out of the aligner's way. Instead, at--threads 1it spawned two producer reader threads (~2–3 cores) and DEFLATE-compressed its output even thoughsortimmediately re-reads and recompresses those bytes. On a 6M-record stream that was ~22.7 CPU-s across ~2–3 cores at ~2 GB RSS.(#762 was reported as a v0.4.0→v0.5.0 single-threaded wall regression. Investigation showed the wall was ~unchanged; the real defects are the redundant compression and the thread oversubscription, and the "regression" framing came from the I/O-generalization in that window shifting how the two threads overlapped. v0.4.0 oversubscribed the same way — it just hid more cost behind a 2 GB read-ahead buffer.)
Changes (two, one commit)
1. Output-aware compression default.
--compression-levelnow defaults to 0 (uncompressed BGZF, no DEFLATE) when the output is a stream — stdout, a FIFO, or process substitution — i.e. the pipeline case where the bytes flow straight intosort. A regular-file output still defaults to 1 (a sane on-disk size); a not-yet-created path is treated as the file it is about to become. An explicit--compression-levelalways wins.2. Single-core fast path. At
--threads <= 1, both inputs are read inline on the calling thread — no producer threads — so the whole command is one core with a minimal footprint. The OS pipe buffer decouples it from the aligner and reading inline backpressures it naturally.--threads >= 2keeps the reader threads so a slow consumer never stalls the input pipe.Results (6M-record stream, M2 Max, warm cache)
--threads 1:Half the CPU, one core, ~100× less memory, at the same wall.
Supporting measurements:
--threads 1, forcing--compression-level 1costs +64% CPU (10.1 → 16.5 CPU-s) — that's the redundant-compression tax the pipeline paid by default before this change.--threadsscaling is unchanged and healthy: wall 10.6s (t1) → 6.1s (t2) → 5.6s (t4), then flat (zipper finds ~2.4 cores of useful work, so-t 8==-t 4). At--threads >= 2the multithreaded writer parallelizes DEFLATE, so compression is nearly free in wall terms there.Behavior change
Piping zipper to a file descriptor / stdout now yields uncompressed BGZF by default (still a valid BAM;
sortandsamtoolsread it fine). Writing to a named.bamfile is unchanged (level 1). Pass--compression-level Nto override either way.Verification
cargo ci-fmtandclippy -D warningsclean.zipper.rs(+96/-42); no other command is affected.Note
I also prototyped dropping an internal SAM→BAM transcode round-trip, but a clean interleaved A/B showed zero CPU difference (the profile that motivated it was a macOS
sampleartifact — parked-in-inflatesamples counted as CPU). It was rolled back rather than add shared-crate complexity for no gain.Risk: command output content none; compressed stream defaults change and are pinned by output-aware and thread-parity tests;
unsafenone, so CLAUDE.md allowlist changes none; thread and memory policy changes for--threads <= 1.--threads <= 1.--threads >= 2.