Previously, we were using Breeze's activeIterator to access the non-zero elements
in dense/sparse vector. Due to the overhead, we switched back to native `while loop`
in #SPARK-4129.
However, #SPARK-4129 requires de-reference the dv.values/sv.values in
each access to the value, which is very expensive. Also, in MultivariateOnlineSummarizer,
we're using Breeze's dense vector to store the partial stats, and this is very expensive compared
with using primitive scala array.
In this PR, efficient foreachActive is implemented to unify the code path for dense and sparse
vector operation which makes codebase easier to maintain. Breeze dense vector is replaced
by primitive array to reduce the overhead further.
Benchmarking with mnist8m dataset on single JVM
with first 200 samples loaded in memory, and repeating 5000 times.
Before change:
Sparse Vector - 30.02
Dense Vector - 38.27
With this PR:
Sparse Vector - 6.29
Dense Vector - 11.72
Author: DB Tsai <dbtsai@alpinenow.com>
Closes#3288 from dbtsai/activeIterator and squashes the following commits:
844b0e6 [DB Tsai] formating
03dd693 [DB Tsai] futher performance tunning.
1907ae1 [DB Tsai] address feedback
98448bb [DB Tsai] Made the override final, and had a local copy of variables which made the accessing a single step operation.
c0cbd5a [DB Tsai] fix a bug
6441f92 [DB Tsai] Finished SPARK-4431
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