Two stacked optimizations land on the SqlScan hot path. Combined
effect on the 50k-row benchmark:
Before After vs raw
Numeric WHERE 10.2ms 7.8ms 1.15x
String WHERE 10.5ms 7.9ms 1.15x
No WHERE 9.2ms 10.0ms 1.45x
Raw RDD baseline 6.8ms 6.8ms 1.00x
WHERE-predicate paths are now within 15% of the raw Harbour-style
RDD scan loop. The no-WHERE path is unchanged (slight jitter from
the added devirt branch); FieldGet peephole doesn't apply there.
--- Optimization 1: PcOpFieldGet peephole ---
Adds a new pcode opcode `PcOpFieldGet <fieldIdx>` (0x46) that skips
the usual PushSymbol+Function+Frame+FieldGet-RTL+EndProc chain and
calls a direct field getter closure instead. genpc recognizes the
shape `FieldGet(<int-literal>)` during emitCall and emits the
specialized opcode automatically — no SQL-side API change.
Integration:
* hbrt.Thread.FastFieldGetter — hot-path closure set by scan loops.
Non-nil → pcode bypasses dispatch.
Nil → pcode resolves FIELDGET via
the RTL symbol table (correctness
fallback for any other callers).
* compiler/genpc/genpc.go — peephole in emitCall.
* hbrt/pcinterp.go — PcOpFieldGet handler.
This alone cut numeric WHERE from 10.2 → 7.9ms: eliminated roughly
one full Frame/EndProc + RTL dispatch per row × 50k rows.
--- Optimization 2: DBFArea devirtualization ---
SqlScan type-asserts the workarea to *dbf.DBFArea once and runs a
dedicated loop that calls GoTop/EOF/Skip/GetValue directly on the
concrete type. Go's compiler inlines these, skipping the interface
vtable per row. Non-DBF drivers still work via the generic Area
branch.
The FastFieldGetter closure also captures *DBFArea directly in the
DBF branch, so the WHERE predicate side of the hot loop is now
entirely devirtualized: no interface dispatch between the pcode
dispatch loop and the DBF record buffer.
Validation:
- FiveSql2 43/43
- Harbour compat 51/51
- go test ./... ALL PASS
Remaining gap to raw RDD on no-WHERE (~1.45x) is dominated by the
two-column row construction + ArraySlab + flat backing bookkeeping
that the raw loop doesn't do. Going below that requires changing
the SQL engine's result shape — out of scope here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
204 lines
5.9 KiB
Go
204 lines
5.9 KiB
Go
// Copyright (c) 2026 Charles KWON OhJun (charleskwonohjun@gmail.com)
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// All rights reserved.
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// Go-native SQL scan loop for FiveSql2 hot path.
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//
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// Motivation: FiveSql2 is a PRG-based SQL interpreter. For simple
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// "SELECT cols FROM table WHERE cond" queries, the per-row cost is
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// dominated by PRG interpreter overhead (AST tree walk, field name
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// lookup, workarea switching). Moving just the inner scan loop to Go
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// bypasses all that overhead and gets us ~15x speedup for the common
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// case while keeping the rest of FiveSql2 untouched.
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//
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// The SQL engine remains responsible for:
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// - Parsing SQL and building AST
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// - Resolving field names to positions (column binding)
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// - Compiling WHERE expression to pcode (via PcCompile)
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// - GROUP BY, ORDER BY, aggregates (not per-row)
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//
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// This helper only handles the hot loop:
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// - Full table scan (workarea already positioned)
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// - Per-row WHERE evaluation via ExecPcode
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// - Column extraction via cached field positions
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// - Result array construction
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package hbrtl
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import (
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"five/hbrdd"
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"five/hbrdd/dbf"
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"five/hbrt"
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)
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// SqlScan(aFieldPositions, pcWhere) → aRows
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//
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// Scans the current workarea top-to-bottom, evaluates pcWhere per row
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// (nil = no filter), collects selected column values into rows.
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//
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// aFieldPositions: array of 1-based field positions to extract per row.
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// Resolve once before calling (FieldPos cache is O(1)
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// but still has PRG → Go call overhead).
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// pcWhere: pcode function pointer from PcCompile, or NIL.
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//
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// Returns:
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// Array of rows, each row = Array of field values.
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//
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// Notes on CHAR trimming: DBF character fields are space-padded. The
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// caller decides whether to trim (via a SELECT-list AllTrim wrapper).
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// We don't trim here — that's a semantic choice, and callers who need
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// raw bytes shouldn't pay for a strings.TrimSpace().
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func SqlScan(t *hbrt.Thread) {
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t.Frame(2, 0)
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defer t.EndProc()
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// Parse arguments
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fieldsVal := t.Local(1)
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if !fieldsVal.IsArray() {
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t.PushValue(hbrt.MakeArray(0))
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t.RetValue()
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return
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}
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fieldsArr := fieldsVal.AsArray().Items
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nFields := len(fieldsArr)
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whereVal := t.Local(2)
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var whereFn *hbrt.PcodeFunc
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if !whereVal.IsNil() {
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if p := whereVal.AsPointer(); p != nil {
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whereFn, _ = p.(*hbrt.PcodeFunc)
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}
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}
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// Pre-convert field positions to []int (avoid Value->int per row)
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fieldPos := make([]int, nFields)
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for i := 0; i < nFields; i++ {
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fieldPos[i] = int(fieldsArr[i].AsNumInt())
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if fieldPos[i] < 1 {
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fieldPos[i] = 1
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}
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}
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wam, ok := t.WA.(*hbrdd.WorkAreaManager)
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if !ok {
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t.PushValue(hbrt.MakeArray(0))
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t.RetValue()
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return
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}
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area := wam.Current()
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if area == nil {
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t.PushValue(hbrt.MakeArray(0))
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t.RetValue()
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return
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}
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// Type-assert to concrete DBFArea once so the hot loop calls
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// GoTop/EOF/Skip/GetValue directly on *dbf.DBFArea without paying
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// the interface dispatch on every row. Falls back to the generic
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// Area path for non-DBF drivers (rare in FiveSql2 context).
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dbfArea, _ := area.(*dbf.DBFArea)
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// SQLite-inspired: instead of one slice allocation per row, maintain
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// a single flat backing buffer and hand each row a sub-slice into it.
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// This halves allocations (row header + backing → just row header)
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// and keeps row data contiguous in memory for better cache locality.
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//
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// Safety: we cap each sub-slice to exactly nFields via the 3-index
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// slice form (flat[off:end:end]). Any later `append` on an individual
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// row will then trigger a reallocation of that row's backing, so we
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// don't clobber neighboring rows if PRG code mutates via AAdd.
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// Size the initial backing based on the workarea's record count —
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// even if WHERE filters most rows out, over-allocating beats five
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// regrowths of a 200 KB buffer mid-scan.
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estRows := 1024
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if rc, err := area.RecCount(); err == nil && rc > 0 {
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estRows = int(rc)
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if estRows > 1 << 20 {
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estRows = 1 << 20
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}
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}
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rows := make([]hbrt.Value, 0, estRows)
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flat := make([]hbrt.Value, 0, estRows*nFields)
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slab := hbrt.NewArraySlab(estRows)
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// Install the hot-path field getter so PcOpFieldGet in the compiled
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// WHERE predicate bypasses PushSymbol + Function dispatch + the
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// FieldGet RTL's own Frame. The closure captures the concrete
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// DBFArea directly so there's no interface dispatch per access.
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prevFG := t.FastFieldGetter
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if dbfArea != nil {
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t.FastFieldGetter = func(idx int) hbrt.Value {
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v, _ := dbfArea.GetValue(idx - 1)
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return v
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}
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} else {
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t.FastFieldGetter = func(idx int) hbrt.Value {
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v, _ := area.GetValue(idx - 1)
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return v
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}
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}
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defer func() { t.FastFieldGetter = prevFG }()
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// Scan — dispatch two nearly-identical loops for devirtualization.
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// The DBF branch is the common case; Go's compiler inlines the
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// direct method calls, whereas the generic Area branch pays one
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// interface dispatch per call as before.
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if dbfArea != nil {
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dbfArea.GoTop()
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for !dbfArea.EOF() {
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keep := true
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if whereFn != nil {
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hbrt.ExecPcodeFast(t, whereFn, nil)
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keep = t.GetRetValue().AsBool()
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}
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if keep {
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off := len(flat)
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end := off + nFields
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if end > cap(flat) {
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flat = append(flat, make([]hbrt.Value, nFields)...)
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} else {
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flat = flat[:end]
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}
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row := flat[off:end:end]
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for i := 0; i < nFields; i++ {
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v, _ := dbfArea.GetValue(fieldPos[i] - 1)
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row[i] = v
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}
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rows = append(rows, slab.WrapNext(row))
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}
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dbfArea.Skip(1)
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}
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} else {
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area.GoTop()
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for !area.EOF() {
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keep := true
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if whereFn != nil {
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hbrt.ExecPcodeFast(t, whereFn, nil)
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keep = t.GetRetValue().AsBool()
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}
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if keep {
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off := len(flat)
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end := off + nFields
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if end > cap(flat) {
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flat = append(flat, make([]hbrt.Value, nFields)...)
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} else {
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flat = flat[:end]
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}
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row := flat[off:end:end]
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for i := 0; i < nFields; i++ {
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v, _ := area.GetValue(fieldPos[i] - 1)
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row[i] = v
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}
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rows = append(rows, slab.WrapNext(row))
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}
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area.Skip(1)
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}
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}
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t.PushValue(hbrt.MakeArrayFrom(rows))
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t.RetValue()
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}
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