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Follow-up to #955-era rebuild_with work (stacked on #962). Profiling fgumi zipper at 1 thread — the realistic streaming setting (bwa-mem3 | fgumi zipper | fgumi sort), where zipper runs a single-thread tight loop — showed the merge is CPU-bound and serial, with find_tag_position still ~14% of CPU after #962 removed the per-tag copy-loop scans. That 14% is now dominated by fixed per-record single-tag lookups that scan the aux from offset 0:

  • find_tag_type(PG) — the has_pg probe, once per mapped record. Aligner output carries no per-record PG, so this is a full aux scan that always fails.
  • normalize_int_tag_to_smallest_signed for AS and XS — each a find scan plus a remove scan, four scans per record.

What changed

perf(zipper) — two single-walk helpers replace those scans, each reusing one scratch buffer across records:

  • copy_unmapped_tags_single_pass copies the mapped record's tags, resolves PG precedence (keep the mapped read's own PG, drop the unmapped one) in the same walk, and appends the copy set — no separate has_pg scan, and no per-record allocation.
  • normalize_as_xs_single_pass normalizes AS then XS in one walk instead of four scans.

refactor(raw-bam) — extract_int_value bundled the integer-decode ladder with aux-slice positioning, so a caller holding a tag's value bytes (from an AuxTagsIter/TagEntry walk) couldn't reuse it. Split out decode_int_value(type_byte, value_bytes); extract_int_value now slices and delegates. Removes the now single-use tag_value_bytes.

Correctness: byte-identical

On a 10.9M-record CODEC dataset (extract → bwa-mem3 → zipper), output is byte-identical to the pre-change binary:

  • strict samtools view md5 (fields + tags + order): identical.
  • fgumi compare bams: 0 content diffs across 10,941,868 records.

All 146 zipper/merge/align tests pass; 806 fgumi-raw-bam tests pass. New tests cover decode_int_value (per type, non-integer types, short slices); the existing AS/XS-normalization and has_pg (pg_already_on_mapped_read_blocks_the_unmapped_pg_copy) tests exercise the new helpers.

Performance

Standalone fgumi zipper, 1 thread, page-cache warm, 10.9M records:

  • find_tag_position drops from ~14% → ~8% of CPU (samply, threadCPUDelta-weighted).
  • The command is faster in every measured rep; ~5–9% less CPU (the exact figure is noisy on an interactive laptop — this host's wall time is unreliable under load, so the number is CPU-seconds and directional). A quiet dedicated host would tighten it.

This is a CPU-reduction change, which is what matters for zipper's place in the pipeline: every CPU-second it doesn't burn goes to the aligner (upstream) and sort (downstream) sharing the box.

Reading order

  1. crates/fgumi-raw-bam/src/tags.rs — decode_int_value + extract_int_value delegation.
  2. src/lib/commands/zipper.rs — copy_unmapped_tags_single_pass, normalize_as_xs_single_pass, and their wiring into merge_raw_with.

Base

Stacked on #962 (nh/raw-tags-rebuild) — it builds on that PR's merge_raw_with structure. Retarget to main once #962 merges.

Risk: zipper auxiliary-tag output can change, pinned by byte-identical zipper/merge/align tests; unsafe changes: none, so no CLAUDE.md allowlist update is needed; memory, queue, and thread/backpressure policy changes: none.

  • Optimize PG, AS, and XS handling with single-pass walks and reusable scratch buffers.
  • Preserve PG precedence and duplicate-tag last-wins behavior.
  • Add shared checked integer decoding through decode_int_value.
  • Add tests for tag updates, normalization, ordering, malformed tails, and no-op cases.
  • Report approximately 5–9% lower CPU usage.

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The raw BAM crate now exposes checked integer decoding. The zipper merge path now performs single-pass auxiliary tag copying and AS/XS normalization with reusable scratch storage. Tests cover precedence, ordering, duplicate handling, byte preservation, and malformed tails.

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Raw BAM integer decoding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public integer decoder and validation
crates/fgumi-raw-bam/src/lib.rs, crates/fgumi-raw-bam/src/tags.rs
The crate re-exports array_tag_element_u16 and decode_int_value. Integer extraction uses checked offsets and shared decoding for BAM integer types. Tests cover unsupported types and short payloads.

Auxiliary tag merge and normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Single-pass auxiliary tag copying
src/lib/commands/zipper.rs
The merge path reuses scratch storage, copies tags in one pass, preserves mapped-record PG, applies last-wins upserts, and transforms copied tags.
AS/XS normalization and behavior tests
src/lib/commands/zipper.rs
AS and XS normalization uses one reusable-scratch pass. Normalized values use smallest-signed encodings and AS precedes XS. Tests cover duplicate handling, no-op normalization, byte preservation, and malformed tails.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant merge_raw_with
  participant SinglePassTagCopy
  participant SinglePassASXSNormalization
  participant BAMAuxiliaryData
  merge_raw_with->>SinglePassTagCopy: copy and upsert auxiliary tags
  SinglePassTagCopy->>BAMAuxiliaryData: write filtered entries
  merge_raw_with->>SinglePassASXSNormalization: normalize AS and XS
  SinglePassASXSNormalization->>BAMAuxiliaryData: write normalized entries
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extract_int_value bundled the type-byte decode ladder (c/C/s/S/i/I) with the
aux-slice positioning, so a caller that already holds a tag's value bytes (from
an AuxTagsIter/TagEntry walk) could not reuse it without re-scanning for the
position. Split the ladder into a public decode_int_value(type_byte, value_bytes)
and make extract_int_value slice the value out and delegate. Removes the now
single-use tag_value_bytes helper.

Enables the zipper single-pass AS/XS normalize to decode a tag's value inline
during its aux walk instead of duplicating the ladder.

Tests cover decode_int_value per type, non-integer types, and short slices.
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- Around line 843-855: Update the AS/XS handling in the zipper tag-processing
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merge_raw_with did several independent per-record aux scans on top of the
tag-copy walk: a find_tag_type(PG) probe to choose the copy set (a full scan
that fails on typical aligner output, which carries no per-record PG), and two
normalize_int_tag_to_smallest_signed calls for AS and XS (each a find plus a
remove scan, four scans in all). Profiling fgumi zipper (10.9M records, one
thread) put find_tag_position at ~14% of CPU, dominated by these fixed
per-record lookups now that the tag-copy loop no longer scans per tag.

Replace them with two single-walk helpers that reuse a scratch buffer:
- copy_unmapped_tags_single_pass copies the survivors, resolves PG precedence
  (keep the mapped read's PG, drop the unmapped one) in the same walk, and
  appends the copy set, so no separate has_pg scan is needed.
- normalize_as_xs_single_pass normalizes AS then XS in one walk instead of four
  scans.

Output is byte-identical: a strict `samtools view` md5 and `fgumi compare bams`
both report 0 diffs across 10,941,868 records versus the prior binary. On the
same run find_tag_position drops from ~14% to ~8% of CPU and the command is
faster in every rep. All zipper/merge tests pass.
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Standalone zipper normalized the AS/XS alignment-score tags to the smallest
signed width in a dedicated per-record pass that, for every mapped record, ran
roughly four linear find_tag_position scans plus two Vec::drain memmoves and two
appends. Fold that normalization into the single aux rebuild that the tag-copy
step already performs per record, via a new RawTagsEditor::rebuild_with_int_normalized,
so the smallest-signed re-encoding rides along on a walk that already happens
instead of a second full pass.

The new primitive is byte-identical to rebuild_with followed by
normalize_int_tag_to_smallest_signed per tag, including first-key-occurrence
semantics on degenerate duplicate-key aux (only the first occurrence is captured
and relocated; later duplicates and a non-integer first occurrence are left
verbatim, matching find_int_tag). Oracle and property tests cover the captured,
relocated, left-in-place, spill, empty, and duplicate-key branches.

Records whose unmapped read carries no copyable tags are normalized standalone in
the existing empty-adds branch. A mapped record that no unmapped primary selects
is reached by neither the fused copy nor the empty-adds branch: Template::from_records
accepts a supplementary/secondary record whose segment has no primary, and
primary_reads() x collect_mapped_indices only visits segments an unmapped primary
selects. A final fallback pass therefore normalizes any mapped record the copy did
not, tracked by a coverage bitset built in all builds, so such a record is never
written with an un-normalized AS/XS in release rather than only tripping a
debug_assert. A regression test drives that path (a supplementary R2 with no R2
primary, unmapped side carrying only an R1 primary).

Also thread a reusable aux-rebuild scratch buffer through process_raw and
merge_one_template_with so its allocation is reused across templates on the serial
merge thread and across the align-and-merge / ZipperMerge pipeline loops.

Output is byte-identical for well-formed input; the only behavioural change is
that a malformed template's previously un-normalized AS/XS is now normalized. This
is rebased onto #964, which independently reduced this path to single-pass walks,
so the throughput figures from the original measurement (taken against the
pre-#964 baseline: ~18% wall / ~9% CPU at two threads on a 60.1M-record synthetic
set) need re-measuring against current main before merging.
nh13 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
Standalone zipper normalized the AS/XS alignment-score tags to the smallest
signed width in a dedicated per-record pass that, for every mapped record, ran
roughly four linear find_tag_position scans plus two Vec::drain memmoves and two
appends. Fold that normalization into the single aux rebuild that the tag-copy
step already performs per record, via a new RawTagsEditor::rebuild_with_int_normalized,
so the smallest-signed re-encoding rides along on a walk that already happens
instead of a second full pass.

The new primitive is byte-identical to rebuild_with followed by
normalize_int_tag_to_smallest_signed per tag, including first-key-occurrence
semantics on degenerate duplicate-key aux (only the first occurrence is captured
and relocated; later duplicates and a non-integer first occurrence are left
verbatim, matching find_int_tag). Oracle and property tests cover the captured,
relocated, left-in-place, spill, empty, and duplicate-key branches.

Records whose unmapped read carries no copyable tags are normalized standalone in
the existing empty-adds branch. A mapped record that no unmapped primary selects
is reached by neither the fused copy nor the empty-adds branch: Template::from_records
accepts a supplementary/secondary record whose segment has no primary, and
primary_reads() x collect_mapped_indices only visits segments an unmapped primary
selects. A final fallback pass therefore normalizes any mapped record the copy did
not, tracked by a coverage bitset built in all builds, so such a record is never
written with an un-normalized AS/XS in release rather than only tripping a
debug_assert. A regression test drives that path (a supplementary R2 with no R2
primary, unmapped side carrying only an R1 primary).

Also thread a reusable aux-rebuild scratch buffer through process_raw and
merge_one_template_with so its allocation is reused across templates on the serial
merge thread and across the align-and-merge / ZipperMerge pipeline loops.

Output is byte-identical for well-formed input; the only behavioural change is
that a malformed template's previously un-normalized AS/XS is now normalized. This
is rebased onto #964, which independently reduced this path to single-pass walks,
so the throughput figures from the original measurement (taken against the
pre-#964 baseline: ~18% wall / ~9% CPU at two threads on a 60.1M-record synthetic
set) need re-measuring against current main before merging.
nh13 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
Standalone zipper normalized the AS/XS alignment-score tags to the smallest
signed width in a dedicated per-record pass that, for every mapped record, ran
roughly four linear find_tag_position scans plus two Vec::drain memmoves and two
appends. Fold that normalization into the single aux rebuild that the tag-copy
step already performs per record, via a new RawTagsEditor::rebuild_with_int_normalized,
so the smallest-signed re-encoding rides along on a walk that already happens
instead of a second full pass.

The new primitive is byte-identical to rebuild_with followed by
normalize_int_tag_to_smallest_signed per tag, including first-key-occurrence
semantics on degenerate duplicate-key aux (only the first occurrence is captured
and relocated; later duplicates and a non-integer first occurrence are left
verbatim, matching find_int_tag). Oracle and property tests cover the captured,
relocated, left-in-place, spill, empty, and duplicate-key branches.

Records whose unmapped read carries no copyable tags are normalized standalone in
the existing empty-adds branch. A mapped record that no unmapped primary selects
is reached by neither the fused copy nor the empty-adds branch: Template::from_records
accepts a supplementary/secondary record whose segment has no primary, and
primary_reads() x collect_mapped_indices only visits segments an unmapped primary
selects. A final fallback pass therefore normalizes any mapped record the copy did
not, tracked by a coverage bitset built in all builds, so such a record is never
written with an un-normalized AS/XS in release rather than only tripping a
debug_assert. A regression test drives that path (a supplementary R2 with no R2
primary, unmapped side carrying only an R1 primary).

Also thread a reusable aux-rebuild scratch buffer through process_raw and
merge_one_template_with so its allocation is reused across templates on the serial
merge thread and across the align-and-merge / ZipperMerge pipeline loops.

Output is byte-identical for well-formed input; the only behavioural change is
that a malformed template's previously un-normalized AS/XS is now normalized. This
is rebased onto #964, which independently reduced this path to single-pass walks,
so the throughput figures from the original measurement (taken against the
pre-#964 baseline: ~18% wall / ~9% CPU at two threads on a 60.1M-record synthetic
set) need re-measuring against current main before merging.
nh13 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
Standalone zipper normalized the AS/XS alignment-score tags to the smallest
signed width in a dedicated per-record pass that, for every mapped record, ran
roughly four linear find_tag_position scans plus two Vec::drain memmoves and two
appends. Fold that normalization into the single aux rebuild that the tag-copy
step already performs per record, via a new RawTagsEditor::rebuild_with_int_normalized,
so the smallest-signed re-encoding rides along on a walk that already happens
instead of a second full pass.

The new primitive is byte-identical to rebuild_with followed by
normalize_int_tag_to_smallest_signed per tag, including first-key-occurrence
semantics on degenerate duplicate-key aux (only the first occurrence is captured
and relocated; later duplicates and a non-integer first occurrence are left
verbatim, matching find_int_tag). Oracle and property tests cover the captured,
relocated, left-in-place, spill, empty, and duplicate-key branches.

Records whose unmapped read carries no copyable tags are normalized standalone in
the existing empty-adds branch. A mapped record that no unmapped primary selects
is reached by neither the fused copy nor the empty-adds branch: Template::from_records
accepts a supplementary/secondary record whose segment has no primary, and
primary_reads() x collect_mapped_indices only visits segments an unmapped primary
selects. A final fallback pass therefore normalizes any mapped record the copy did
not, tracked by a coverage bitset built in all builds, so such a record is never
written with an un-normalized AS/XS in release rather than only tripping a
debug_assert. A regression test drives that path (a supplementary R2 with no R2
primary, unmapped side carrying only an R1 primary).

Also thread a reusable aux-rebuild scratch buffer through process_raw and
merge_one_template_with so its allocation is reused across templates on the serial
merge thread and across the align-and-merge / ZipperMerge pipeline loops.

Output is byte-identical for well-formed input; the only behavioural change is
that a malformed template's previously un-normalized AS/XS is now normalized. This
is rebased onto #964, which independently reduced this path to single-pass walks,
so the throughput figures from the original measurement (taken against the
pre-#964 baseline: ~18% wall / ~9% CPU at two threads on a 60.1M-record synthetic
set) need re-measuring against current main before merging.

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