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Optimizes fgumi zipper's serial merge — the path it runs in production, at 1–2 threads between the aligner and the sorter, where both CPU efficiency and wall time matter. Three changes, all byte-identical to the previous output.

Risk verdict: (1) Output — none; byte-identical across commands, verified with fgumi compare bams (IDENTICAL) and a per-record on-disk-integer-width check over 60,116,876 records. (2) unsafe — none added. (3) Memory / thread / backpressure policy — unchanged; a single aux-rebuild scratch buffer is now reused across templates rather than reallocated per record, so steady-state memory stays a function of record size, not input size.

What changed

  1. Fold AS/XS normalization into the tag-copy rebuild. The old path normalized the AS/XS alignment-score tags to the smallest signed width in a dedicated per-record pass that ran roughly four linear tag scans plus two aux memmoves and two appends for every mapped record. A new RawTagsEditor::rebuild_with_int_normalized performs that re-encoding during the single aux rebuild the tag-copy step already does, so it costs no extra scan or memmove. It 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 — and is covered by oracle and property tests.

  2. Reuse the aux-rebuild buffer. A scratch Vec is threaded 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.

  3. Stringify the mate CIGAR without per-op allocations. Template::fix_mate_info set the MC tag via cigar_to_string_from_raw, which allocates an intermediate Vec<u32> of ops plus one String per CIGAR op. The new cigar_to_bytes_into formats directly into a caller-provided buffer with no per-op allocation. fix_mate_info is shared infrastructure, so group, consensus and dedup benefit too.

Performance

Synthetic 60.1M-record set (chr17), at the production thread counts:

threads wall CPU
2 −18% −9%
1 −3% −3%

zipper is I/O-codec-bound at these thread counts (input BGZF decompression dominates), so the merge-side win is single-digit at one thread and larger at two, where the serial merge thread is the wall-gating stage.

Validation

  • fgumi compare bams: IDENTICAL (0 content diffs, 60,116,876 records) against the pre-change binary.
  • Per-record check: 0 field / tag-value / on-disk-width diffs across all records.
  • Full workspace suite green: clippy -D warnings -W pedantic, fmt, nextest plus doctests.
  • Reviewed with a CodeRabbit-style pass and a multi-lens adversarial review; findings applied — duplicate-key first-occurrence parity, empty-adds and spill/edge-case test coverage, scratch threading to the pipeline paths, a debug-build coverage assert, and doc accuracy.

Follow-on (not in this PR)

Scaling zipper beyond ~2 threads is a separate change: decompose the merge into a chain pipeline (parallel decode of the two inputs, a serial zip step, a parallel per-template merge step, parallel compress) so higher --threads fan out without raising per-record CPU. Left out deliberately — it trades CPU for wall and only helps the 4+ thread regime.

Risk: No changes to grouping, consensus, sort order, corrected UMIs, or metrics output; byte-identical output was verified across 60,116,876 records. No unsafe changes; no CLAUDE.md allowlist update. No memory-bound, queue-capacity, thread, or backpressure policy changes.

Fix: Reuse zipper scratch buffers and format mate CIGAR values without intermediate allocations.

  • Fuse AS/XS normalization with auxiliary-tag rebuilding.
  • Reuse scratch storage across templates and pipeline batches.
  • Add and re-export cigar_to_bytes_into.
  • Preserve MC-tag behavior and malformed or truncated CIGAR handling.
  • Add tests for normalization, malformed tags, duplicate tags, overflow, and truncated CIGARs.

Validation reports no on-disk differences and a passing workspace test suite. At two threads, wall time decreased 18% and CPU usage decreased 9%. At one thread, both decreased 3%.

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The change adds allocation-free CIGAR encoding, fused auxiliary-tag rebuilding with integer normalization, and reusable scratch buffers across zipper merge paths. Mate MC-tag updates now encode CIGAR data directly.

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CIGAR and mate-tag encoding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Direct CIGAR encoding and mate MC updates
crates/fgumi-raw-bam/src/cigar.rs, crates/fgumi-raw-bam/src/lib.rs, src/lib/template.rs
The public formatter writes CIGAR bytes into a reusable buffer. Mate-information repair uses it for valid mapped mates and removes MC for empty or * CIGAR values. Tests cover equivalence, truncation, and edge cases.

Auxiliary-tag normalization and zipper integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fused auxiliary-tag rebuild and normalization
crates/fgumi-raw-bam/src/tags.rs
RawTagsEditor::rebuild_with_int_normalized combines tag rebuilding with selected integer normalization. Tests cover malformed, duplicate, overflowing, removed, upserted, and large normalization cases.
Reusable scratch storage in zipper merges
src/lib/commands/zipper.rs, src/lib/pipeline/steps/align_and_merge.rs
Standalone, pipeline, and batch merge paths reuse auxiliary scratch buffers. AS and XS normalization occurs during tag copying, including records with no copyable tags. Regression tests cover unselected mapped records and empty copy sets.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant merge_zipper_batch
  participant ZipperMergeStep
  participant merge_one_template_with
  participant RawTagsEditor
  merge_zipper_batch->>ZipperMergeStep: reuse auxiliary scratch buffer
  ZipperMergeStep->>merge_one_template_with: pass scratch storage
  merge_one_template_with->>RawTagsEditor: rebuild and normalize AS/XS
  RawTagsEditor-->>merge_one_template_with: return rebuilt tags
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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.
Template::fix_mate_info sets the MC tag by rendering the mate's CIGAR via
cigar_to_string_from_raw, which allocates an intermediate Vec<u32> of ops and one
String per CIGAR op (u32::to_string) on every call. Since fix_mate_info runs once
per template, that is a large amount of transient allocation on a shared hot path
(group, consensus and dedup fix mate info too).

Add cigar_to_bytes_into, which formats the CIGAR directly into a caller-provided
byte buffer with no intermediate ops vector and no per-op allocation, and use it
at fix_mate_info's five call sites. A differential oracle test asserts it is
byte-identical to cigar_to_string_from_raw across simple, multi-op, multi-digit,
zero-length-op and truncated (fail-closed) inputs.

Output is unchanged.
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