[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-6936) Make all byte representations of types comparable by their unsigned byte representation only

["C. Scott Andreas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6936?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

C. Scott Andreas updated CASSANDRA-6936:
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    Component/s: Core

> Make all byte representations of types comparable by their unsigned byte representation only
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6936
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6936
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: compaction, performance
>             Fix For: 4.x
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> This could be a painful change, but is necessary for implementing a trie-based index, and settling for less would be suboptimal; it also should make comparisons cheaper all-round, and since comparison operations are pretty much the majority of C*'s business, this should be easily felt (see CASSANDRA-6553 and CASSANDRA-6934 for an example of some minor changes with major performance impacts). No copying/special casing/slicing should mean fewer opportunities to introduce performance regressions as well.
> Since I have slated for 3.0 a lot of non-backwards-compatible sstable changes, hopefully this shouldn't be too much more of a burden.



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