[IMPALA-9998] Investigate updating zstd version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 4.0.0
• Component/s: Backend
• Labels: native-toolchain
• Epic Color: ghx-label-4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joe McDonnell
• Created: 23/Jul/20 17:17
• Updated: 09/Apr/21 01:46
• Resolved: 09/Apr/21 01:46

Description

Impala currently uses zstd version 1.4.0. It looks like there are some performance improvements in more recent versions:

v1.4.5
perf: Improved decompression speed: x64 : +10% (clang) / +5% (gcc); ARM : from +15% to +50%, depending on SoC, by @terrelln
perf: Automatically downsizes ZSTD_DCtx when too large for too long (#2069, by @bimbashreshta)
perf: Improved fast compression speed on aarch64 (#2040, ~+3%, by @caoyzh)
perf: Small level 1 compression speed gains (depending on compiler)

v1.4.4
perf: Improved decompression speed, by > 10%, by @terrelln
perf: Better compression speed when re-using a context, by @felixhandte
perf: Fix compression ratio when compressing large files with small dictionary, by @senhuang42
perf: zstd reference encoder can generate RLE blocks, by @bimbashrestha
perf: minor generic speed optimization, by @davidbolvansky

v1.4.1
perf: Improve decode speed by ~7% @mgrice (#1668)
perf: Slightly improved compression ratio of level 3 and 4 (ZSTD_dfast) by @cyan4973 (#1681)
perf: Slightly faster compression speed when re-using a context by @cyan4973 (#1658)
perf: Improve compression ratio for small windowLog by @cyan4973 (#1624)
perf: Faster compression speed in high compression mode for repetitive data by @terrelln (#1635)

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/CHANGELOG