package triegen
import "golang.org/x/text/internal/triegen"
Package triegen implements a code generator for a trie for associating unsigned integer values with UTF-8 encoded runes.
Many of the go.text packages use tries for storing per-rune information. A trie is especially useful if many of the runes have the same value. If this is the case, many blocks can be expected to be shared allowing for information on many runes to be stored in little space.
As most of the lookups are done directly on []byte slices, the tries use the UTF-8 bytes directly for the lookup. This saves a conversion from UTF-8 to runes and contributes a little bit to better performance. It also naturally provides a fast path for ASCII.
Space is also an issue. There are many code points defined in Unicode and as a result tables can get quite large. So every byte counts. The triegen package automatically chooses the smallest integer values to represent the tables. Compacters allow further compression of the trie by allowing for alternative representations of individual trie blocks.
triegen allows generating multiple tries as a single structure. This is useful when, for example, one wants to generate tries for several languages that have a lot of values in common. Some existing libraries for internationalization store all per-language data as a dynamically loadable chunk. The go.text packages are designed with the assumption that the user typically wants to compile in support for all supported languages, in line with the approach common to Go to create a single standalone binary. The multi-root trie approach can give significant storage savings in this scenario.
triegen generates both tables and code. The code is optimized to use the automatically chosen data types. The following code is generated for a Trie or multiple Tries named "foo":
type fooTrie The trie type.
func newFooTrie(x int) *fooTrie Trie constructor, where x is the index of the trie passed to Gen.
func (t *fooTrie) lookup(s []byte) (v uintX, sz int) The lookup method, where uintX is automatically chosen.
func lookupString, lookupUnsafe and lookupStringUnsafe Variants of the above.
var fooValues and fooIndex and any tables generated by Compacters. The core trie data.
var fooTrieHandles Indexes of starter blocks in case of multiple trie roots.
It is recommended that users test the generated trie by checking the returned
value for every rune. Such exhaustive tests are possible as the number of
runes in Unicode is limited.
Example_build shows how to build a simple trie. It assigns the value 1 to
100 random runes generated by randomRunes.
Code:play
Output: Example_lookup demonstrates how to use the trie generated by Example_build.
Code:
Output:Example (Build)¶
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"math/rand"
"unicode"
"golang.org/x/text/internal/triegen"
)
const seed = 0x12345
var genWriter = io.Discard
func randomRunes() map[rune]uint8 {
rnd := rand.New(rand.NewSource(seed))
m := map[rune]uint8{}
for len(m) < 100 {
if r := rune(rnd.Int31n(unicode.MaxRune + 1)); []rune(string(r))[0] == r {
m[r] = 1
}
}
return m
}
func main() {
t := triegen.NewTrie("rand")
for r, _ := range randomRunes() {
t.Insert(r, 1)
}
sz, err := t.Gen(genWriter)
fmt.Printf("Trie size: %d bytes\n", sz)
fmt.Printf("Error: %v\n", err)
}
Trie size: 9280 bytes
Error: <nil>
Example (Lookup)¶
{
trie := newRandTrie(0)
// The same set of runes used by Example_build.
runes := randomRunes()
// Verify the right value is returned for all runes.
for r := rune(0); r <= unicode.MaxRune; r++ {
// Note that the return type of lookup is uint8.
if v, _ := trie.lookupString(string(r)); v != runes[r] {
fmt.Println("FAILURE")
return
}
}
fmt.Println("SUCCESS")
// Output:
// SUCCESS
}
SUCCESS
Index ¶
- func Gen(w io.Writer, name string, tries []*Trie, opts ...Option) (sz int, err error)
- type Compacter
- type Option
- type Trie
Examples ¶
Functions ¶
func Gen ¶
Gen writes Go code for a shared trie lookup structure to w for the given
Tries. The generated trie type will be called nameTrie. newNameTrie(x) will
return the *nameTrie for tries[x]. A value can be looked up by using one of
the various lookup methods defined on nameTrie. It returns the table size of
the generated trie.
ExampleGen_build demonstrates the creation of multiple tries sharing common
blocks. ExampleGen_lookup demonstrates how to use the generated tries.
Code:play
Output: ExampleGen_lookup shows how to look up values in the trie generated by
ExampleGen_build.
Code:
Output:Example (Build)¶
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"math/rand"
"unicode"
"golang.org/x/text/internal/triegen"
)
const seed = 0x12345
var genWriter = io.Discard
// runeValues generates some random values for a set of interesting runes.
func runeValues() map[rune]uint64 {
rnd := rand.New(rand.NewSource(seed))
m := map[rune]uint64{}
for p := 4; p <= unicode.MaxRune; p <<= 1 {
for d := -1; d <= 1; d++ {
m[rune(p+d)] = uint64(rnd.Int63())
}
}
return m
}
func main() {
var tries []*triegen.Trie
rv := runeValues()
for _, c := range []struct {
include func(rune) bool
name string
}{
{func(r rune) bool { return true }, "all"},
{func(r rune) bool { return r < 0x80 }, "ASCII only"},
{func(r rune) bool { return r < 0x80 }, "ASCII only 2"},
{func(r rune) bool { return r <= 0xFFFF }, "BMP only"},
{func(r rune) bool { return r > 0xFFFF }, "No BMP"},
} {
t := triegen.NewTrie(c.name)
tries = append(tries, t)
for r, v := range rv {
if c.include(r) {
t.Insert(r, v)
}
}
}
sz, err := triegen.Gen(genWriter, "multi", tries)
fmt.Printf("Trie size: %d bytes\n", sz)
fmt.Printf("Error: %v\n", err)
}
Trie size: 18250 bytes
Error: <nil>
Example (Lookup)¶
{
rv := runeValues()
for i, include := range []func(rune) bool{
func(r rune) bool { return true }, // all
func(r rune) bool { return r < 0x80 }, // ASCII only
func(r rune) bool { return r < 0x80 }, // ASCII only 2
func(r rune) bool { return r <= 0xFFFF }, // BMP only
func(r rune) bool { return r > 0xFFFF }, // No BMP
} {
t := newMultiTrie(i)
for r := rune(0); r <= unicode.MaxRune; r++ {
x := uint64(0)
if include(r) {
x = rv[r]
}
// As we convert from a valid rune, we know it is safe to use
// lookupStringUnsafe.
if v := t.lookupStringUnsafe(string(r)); x != v {
fmt.Println("FAILURE")
return
}
}
}
fmt.Println("SUCCESS")
// Output:
// SUCCESS
}
SUCCESS
Types ¶
type Compacter ¶
type Compacter interface { // Size returns whether the Compacter could encode the given block as well // as its size in case it can. len(v) is always 64. Size(v []uint64) (sz int, ok bool) // Store stores the block using the Compacter's compression method. // It returns a handle with which the block can be retrieved. // len(v) is always 64. Store(v []uint64) uint32 // Print writes the data structures associated to the given store to w. Print(w io.Writer) error // Handler returns the name of a function that gets called during trie // lookup for blocks generated by the Compacter. The function should be of // the form func (n uint32, b byte) uint64, where n is the index returned by // the Compacter's Store method and b is the last byte of the UTF-8 // encoding, where 0x80 <= b < 0xC0, for which to do the lookup in the // block. Handler() string }
A Compacter generates an alternative, more space-efficient way to store a
trie value block. A trie value block holds all possible values for the last
byte of a UTF-8 encoded rune. Excluding ASCII characters, a trie value block
always has 64 values, as a UTF-8 encoding ends with a byte in [0x80, 0xC0).
Code:play
Output:Example¶
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"golang.org/x/text/internal/triegen"
)
func main() {
t := triegen.NewTrie("root")
for r := rune(0); r < 10000; r += 64 {
t.Insert(r, 0x9015BADA55^uint64(r))
}
sz, _ := t.Gen(io.Discard)
fmt.Printf("Size normal: %5d\n", sz)
var c myCompacter
sz, _ = t.Gen(io.Discard, triegen.Compact(&c))
fmt.Printf("Size compacted: %5d\n", sz)
}
// A myCompacter accepts a block if only the first value is given.
type myCompacter []uint64
func (c *myCompacter) Size(values []uint64) (sz int, ok bool) {
for _, v := range values[1:] {
if v != 0 {
return 0, false
}
}
return 8, true // the size of a uint64
}
func (c *myCompacter) Store(v []uint64) uint32 {
x := uint32(len(*c))
*c = append(*c, v[0])
return x
}
func (c *myCompacter) Print(w io.Writer) error {
fmt.Fprintln(w, "var firstValue = []uint64{")
for _, v := range *c {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t%#x,\n", v)
}
fmt.Fprintln(w, "}")
return nil
}
func (c *myCompacter) Handler() string {
return "getFirstValue"
// Where getFirstValue is included along with the generated code:
// func getFirstValue(n uint32, b byte) uint64 {
// if b == 0x80 { // the first continuation byte
// return firstValue[n]
// }
// return 0
// }
}
Size normal: 81344
Size compacted: 3224
type Option ¶
type Option func(b *builder) error
An Option can be passed to Gen.
func Compact ¶
Compact configures the trie generator to use the given Compacter.
type Trie ¶
type Trie struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
A Trie represents a single root node of a trie. A builder may build several overlapping tries at once.
func NewTrie ¶
NewTrie returns a new trie root.
func (*Trie) Gen ¶
Gen is a convenience wrapper around the Gen func passing t as the only trie and uses the name passed to NewTrie. It returns the size of the generated tables.
func (*Trie) Insert ¶
Insert associates value with the given rune. Insert will panic if a non-zero value is passed for an invalid rune.
Source Files ¶
compact.go print.go triegen.go
- Version
- v0.22.0 (latest)
- Published
- Feb 4, 2025
- Platform
- linux/amd64
- Imports
- 9 packages
- Last checked
- 1 day ago –
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