File mode.h

Enums

enum ApproxTopK_mode_t

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This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. Represents the mode of use of approximate top-k computations that allows to trade accuracy vs speed. So, every options besides EXACT_TOPK increases the speed.

B represents the number of buckets. D is the number of min-k elements to track within every bucket.

Default option is EXACT_TOPK. APPROX_TOPK_BUCKETS_B16_D2 is worth starting from, if you’d like to experiment a bit.

It seems that only the limited number of combinations are meaningful, because of the limited supply of SIMD registers. Also, certain combinations, such as B32_D1 and B16_D1, were concluded to be not very precise in benchmarks, so ones were not introduced.

TODO: Consider d-ary SIMD heap.

Values:

enumerator EXACT_TOPK

enumerator APPROX_TOPK_BUCKETS_B32_D2

enumerator APPROX_TOPK_BUCKETS_B8_D3

enumerator APPROX_TOPK_BUCKETS_B16_D2

enumerator APPROX_TOPK_BUCKETS_B8_D2