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Introduce readNBytes #59

Closed wangkuiyi closed 5 years ago

wangkuiyi commented 5 years ago

After we use Go's data I/O pipeline in https://github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio/pull/57/, the Read function might return part but not all of the data to-be-read. After all, according to the document:

Read conventionally returns what is available instead of waiting for more.

To handle this case, we introduce a new function readNBytes which repeatedly calls Read to read all the expected bytes.

Benchmarking this PR shows:

yi@WangYis-iMac:/go/src/github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio (fix_big_io_test)$ go test -bench=.
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio
BenchmarkRead/reading_records_00000_to_00050-4                10     158894120 ns/op
BenchmarkRead/reading_records_00050_to_00100-4                 5     216126566 ns/op
BenchmarkRead/reading_records_00100_to_00150-4                10     147784130 ns/op
PASS
ok      github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio   8.382s

It explains that the 1000-time acceleration reported earlier in https://github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio/pull/57#issue-299713896 is wrong -- it was due to that Read reads and returns only part of each record.

It is correct to compare this PR with the benchmark before the merge of https://github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio/pull/57

yi@WangYis-iMac:/go/src/github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio (develop)$ go test -bench=.
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio
BenchmarkRead/reading_records_00000_to_00050-4                 5     297171427 ns/op
BenchmarkRead/reading_records_00050_to_00100-4                 3     486892504 ns/op
BenchmarkRead/reading_records_00100_to_00150-4                 5     293632646 ns/op
PASS
ok      github.com/wangkuiyi/recordio   8.859s

The introducing of Go's I/O pipeline is twice the speed comparing to not.

wangkuiyi commented 5 years ago

This PR fixes only the Go test of write-and-read big records, but not the Python test. So, I temporarily disabled the Python test and will fix it in the next PR.