A tsearch red-black tree node contains 3 pointers (key, left, right)
and 1 bit to hold the red-black flag. When allocating new nodes
this 1 bit is expanded to a full word. Causing the overhead per node
to be 3 times the key size.
We can reduce this overhead to just 2 times the key size.
malloc returns naturally aligned memory. All nodes are internally
allocated with malloc and the left/right node pointers are used
as implementation details. So we can use the low bits of the
left/right node pointers to store extra information.
Replace all direct accesses of the struct node_t node pointers and
red-black value with defines that take care of the red-black flag in
the low bit of the (left) node pointer. This reduces the size of the
nodes on 32-bit systems from 16 to 12 bytes and on 64-bit systems
from 32 to 24 bytes.
Also fix a call to CHECK_TREE so the code can be build (and tested)
with DEBUGGING defined again.
V2 changes:
- Add assert after malloc to catch any odd pointers from bad
interposed mallocs.
- Rename implementation flag to USE_MALLOC_LOW_BIT.
ChangeLog:
* misc/tsearch.c (struct node_t): Reduce to 3 pointers if
USE_MALLOC_LOW_BIT. Define pointer/value accessors.
(check_tree_recurse): Use newly defined accessors.
(check_tree): Likewise.
(maybe_split_for_insert): Likewise.
(__tfind): Likewise.
(__tdelete): Likewise.
(trecurse): Likewise.
(tdestroy_recurse): Likewise.
(__tsearch): Likewise. And add asserts for malloc alignment.
(__twalk): Cast root to node in case CHECK_TREE is defined.
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