leveldb内部没有使用string,而是使用了一个Slice数据结构来指向一块数据,每次给参数都给Slice而不用给数据的拷贝,这样就省去内存的拷贝。leveldb所涉及到KV操作的接口都是用的Slice。
注意事项:
- 如果是多线程调用同一个Slice的const方法,则不用关注多线程同步问题,如果是非const方法则由调用则保证多线程之间的同步;
- 使用Slice之前,必须保证Slice指向的内存数据未被释放。
其内部参数有两个:
private:
const char* data_; //指向数据地址
size_t size_; //数据大小
源码
源码比较简单,这里就不说明了。
class LEVELDB_EXPORT Slice {
public:
// Create an empty slice.
Slice() : data_(""), size_(0) {}
// Create a slice that refers to d[0,n-1].
Slice(const char* d, size_t n) : data_(d), size_(n) {}
// Create a slice that refers to the contents of "s"
Slice(const std::string& s) : data_(s.data()), size_(s.size()) {}
// Create a slice that refers to s[0,strlen(s)-1]
Slice(const char* s) : data_(s), size_(strlen(s)) {}
// Intentionally copyable.
Slice(const Slice&) = default;
Slice& operator=(const Slice&) = default;
// Return a pointer to the beginning of the referenced data
const char* data() const { return data_; }
// Return the length (in bytes) of the referenced data
size_t size() const { return size_; }
// Return true iff the length of the referenced data is zero
bool empty() const { return size_ == 0; }
// Return the ith byte in the referenced data.
// REQUIRES: n < size()
char operator[](size_t n) const {
assert(n < size());
return data_[n];
}
// Change this slice to refer to an empty array
void clear() {
data_ = "";
size_ = 0;
}
// Drop the first "n" bytes from this slice.
void remove_prefix(size_t n) {
assert(n <= size());
data_ += n;
size_ -= n;
}
// Return a string that contains the copy of the referenced data.
std::string ToString() const { return std::string(data_, size_); }
// Three-way comparison. Returns value:
// < 0 iff "*this" < "b",
// == 0 iff "*this" == "b",
// > 0 iff "*this" > "b"
int compare(const Slice& b) const;
// Return true iff "x" is a prefix of "*this"
bool starts_with(const Slice& x) const {
return ((size_ >= x.size_) && (memcmp(data_, x.data_, x.size_) == 0));
}
private:
const char* data_;
size_t size_;
};
inline bool operator==(const Slice& x, const Slice& y) {
return ((x.size() == y.size()) &&
(memcmp(x.data(), y.data(), x.size()) == 0));
}
inline bool operator!=(const Slice& x, const Slice& y) { return !(x == y); }
inline int Slice::compare(const Slice& b) const {
const size_t min_len = (size_ < b.size_) ? size_ : b.size_;
int r = memcmp(data_, b.data_, min_len);
if (r == 0) {
if (size_ < b.size_)
r = -1;
else if (size_ > b.size_)
r = +1;
}
return r;
}
} // namespace leveldb