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-rw-r--r--absl/base/BUILD.bazel25
-rw-r--r--absl/base/CMakeLists.txt26
-rw-r--r--absl/base/config.h2
-rw-r--r--absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.cc84
-rw-r--r--absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h77
-rw-r--r--absl/base/internal/exponential_biased_test.cc168
-rw-r--r--absl/base/optimization.h2
7 files changed, 382 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/absl/base/BUILD.bazel b/absl/base/BUILD.bazel
index d74bac6..ffeca63 100644
--- a/absl/base/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/absl/base/BUILD.bazel
@@ -558,6 +558,31 @@ cc_test(
)
cc_library(
+ name = "exponential_biased",
+ srcs = ["internal/exponential_biased.cc"],
+ hdrs = ["internal/exponential_biased.h"],
+ linkopts = ABSL_DEFAULT_LINKOPTS,
+ visibility = [
+ "//absl:__subpackages__",
+ ],
+ deps = [":core_headers"],
+)
+
+cc_test(
+ name = "exponential_biased_test",
+ size = "small",
+ srcs = ["internal/exponential_biased_test.cc"],
+ copts = ABSL_TEST_COPTS,
+ linkopts = ABSL_DEFAULT_LINKOPTS,
+ visibility = ["//visibility:private"],
+ deps = [
+ ":exponential_biased",
+ "//absl/strings",
+ "@com_google_googletest//:gtest_main",
+ ],
+)
+
+cc_library(
name = "scoped_set_env",
testonly = 1,
srcs = ["internal/scoped_set_env.cc"],
diff --git a/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt b/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt
index 79ee5b9..2698213 100644
--- a/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -505,6 +505,32 @@ absl_cc_test(
absl_cc_library(
NAME
+ exponential_biased
+ SRCS
+ "internal/exponential_biased.cc"
+ HDRS
+ "internal/exponential_biased.h"
+ COPTS
+ ${ABSL_DEFAULT_COPTS}
+ DEPS
+ absl::core_headers
+)
+
+absl_cc_test(
+ NAME
+ exponential_biased_test
+ SRCS
+ "internal/exponential_biased_test.cc"
+ COPTS
+ ${ABSL_TEST_COPTS}
+ DEPS
+ absl::exponential_biased
+ absl::strings
+ gmock_main
+)
+
+absl_cc_library(
+ NAME
scoped_set_env
SRCS
"internal/scoped_set_env.cc"
diff --git a/absl/base/config.h b/absl/base/config.h
index 039b73d..24851fa 100644
--- a/absl/base/config.h
+++ b/absl/base/config.h
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
// ABSL_HAVE_SEMAPHORE_H
//
-// Checks whether the platform supports the <semaphore.h> header and sem_open(3)
+// Checks whether the platform supports the <semaphore.h> header and sem_init(3)
// family of functions as standardized in POSIX.1-2001.
//
// Note: While Apple provides <semaphore.h> for both iOS and macOS, it is
diff --git a/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.cc b/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d7ffd18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include "absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h"
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+#include <atomic>
+#include <cmath>
+#include <limits>
+
+#include "absl/base/attributes.h"
+#include "absl/base/optimization.h"
+
+namespace absl {
+namespace base_internal {
+
+// The algorithm generates a random number between 0 and 1 and applies the
+// inverse cumulative distribution function for an exponential. Specifically:
+// Let m be the inverse of the sample period, then the probability
+// distribution function is m*exp(-mx) so the CDF is
+// p = 1 - exp(-mx), so
+// q = 1 - p = exp(-mx)
+// log_e(q) = -mx
+// -log_e(q)/m = x
+// log_2(q) * (-log_e(2) * 1/m) = x
+// In the code, q is actually in the range 1 to 2**26, hence the -26 below
+int64_t ExponentialBiased::Get(int64_t mean) {
+ if (ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(!initialized_)) {
+ Initialize();
+ }
+
+ uint64_t rng = NextRandom(rng_);
+ rng_ = rng;
+
+ // Take the top 26 bits as the random number
+ // (This plus the 1<<58 sampling bound give a max possible step of
+ // 5194297183973780480 bytes.)
+ // The uint32_t cast is to prevent a (hard-to-reproduce) NAN
+ // under piii debug for some binaries.
+ double q = static_cast<uint32_t>(rng >> (kPrngNumBits - 26)) + 1.0;
+ // Put the computed p-value through the CDF of a geometric.
+ double interval = (std::log2(q) - 26) * (-std::log(2.0) * mean);
+ // Very large values of interval overflow int64_t. To avoid that, we will cheat
+ // and clamp any huge values to (int64_t max)/2. This is a potential source of
+ // bias, but the mean would need to be such a large value that it's not likely
+ // to come up. For example, with a mean of 1e18, the probability of hitting
+ // this condition is about 1/1000. For a mean of 1e17, standard calculators
+ // claim that this event won't happen.
+ if (interval > static_cast<double>(std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max() / 2)) {
+ return std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max() / 2;
+ }
+
+ return static_cast<int64_t>(interval);
+}
+
+void ExponentialBiased::Initialize() {
+ // We don't get well distributed numbers from `this` so we call NextRandom() a
+ // bunch to mush the bits around. We use a global_rand to handle the case
+ // where the same thread (by memory address) gets created and destroyed
+ // repeatedly.
+ ABSL_CONST_INIT static std::atomic<uint32_t> global_rand(0);
+ uint64_t r = reinterpret_cast<uint64_t>(this) +
+ global_rand.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
+ for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i) {
+ r = NextRandom(r);
+ }
+ rng_ = r;
+ initialized_ = true;
+}
+
+} // namespace base_internal
+} // namespace absl
diff --git a/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h b/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cac2d8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
+#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+namespace absl {
+namespace base_internal {
+
+// ExponentialBiased provides a small and fast random number generator for a
+// rounded exponential distribution. This generator doesn't requires very little
+// state doesn't impose synchronization overhead, which makes it useful in some
+// specialized scenarios.
+//
+// For the generated variable X, X ~ floor(Exponential(1/mean)). The floor
+// operation introduces a small amount of bias, but the distribution is useful
+// to generate a wait time. That is, if an operation is supposed to happen on
+// average to 1/mean events, then the generated variable X will describe how
+// many events to skip before performing the operation and computing a new X.
+//
+// The mathematically precise distribution to use for integer wait times is a
+// Geometric distribution, but a Geometric distribution takes slightly more time
+// to compute and when the mean is large (say, 100+), the Geometric distribution
+// is hard to distinguish from the result of ExponentialBiased.
+//
+// This class is thread-compatible.
+class ExponentialBiased {
+ public:
+ // The number of bits set by NextRandom.
+ static constexpr int kPrngNumBits = 48;
+
+ // Generates the floor of an exponentially distributed random variable by
+ // rounding the value down to the nearest integer. The result will be in the
+ // range [0, int64_t max / 2].
+ int64_t Get(int64_t mean);
+
+ // Computes a random number in the range [0, 1<<(kPrngNumBits+1) - 1]
+ //
+ // This is public to enable testing.
+ static uint64_t NextRandom(uint64_t rnd);
+
+ private:
+ void Initialize();
+
+ uint64_t rng_{0};
+ bool initialized_{false};
+};
+
+// Returns the next prng value.
+// pRNG is: aX+b mod c with a = 0x5DEECE66D, b = 0xB, c = 1<<48
+// This is the lrand64 generator.
+inline uint64_t ExponentialBiased::NextRandom(uint64_t rnd) {
+ const uint64_t prng_mult = uint64_t{0x5DEECE66D};
+ const uint64_t prng_add = 0xB;
+ const uint64_t prng_mod_power = 48;
+ const uint64_t prng_mod_mask =
+ ~((~static_cast<uint64_t>(0)) << prng_mod_power);
+ return (prng_mult * rnd + prng_add) & prng_mod_mask;
+}
+
+} // namespace base_internal
+} // namespace absl
+
+#endif // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
diff --git a/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased_test.cc b/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased_test.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09b511d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/absl/base/internal/exponential_biased_test.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include "absl/base/internal/exponential_biased.h"
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+#include <cmath>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "gmock/gmock.h"
+#include "gtest/gtest.h"
+#include "absl/strings/str_cat.h"
+
+using ::testing::Ge;
+
+namespace absl {
+namespace base_internal {
+
+MATCHER_P2(IsBetween, a, b,
+ absl::StrCat(std::string(negation ? "isn't" : "is"), " between ", a,
+ " and ", b)) {
+ return a <= arg && arg <= b;
+}
+
+// Tests of the quality of the random numbers generated
+// This uses the Anderson Darling test for uniformity.
+// See "Evaluating the Anderson-Darling Distribution" by Marsaglia
+// for details.
+
+// Short cut version of ADinf(z), z>0 (from Marsaglia)
+// This returns the p-value for Anderson Darling statistic in
+// the limit as n-> infinity. For finite n, apply the error fix below.
+double AndersonDarlingInf(double z) {
+ if (z < 2) {
+ return exp(-1.2337141 / z) / sqrt(z) *
+ (2.00012 +
+ (0.247105 -
+ (0.0649821 - (0.0347962 - (0.011672 - 0.00168691 * z) * z) * z) *
+ z) *
+ z);
+ }
+ return exp(
+ -exp(1.0776 -
+ (2.30695 -
+ (0.43424 - (0.082433 - (0.008056 - 0.0003146 * z) * z) * z) * z) *
+ z));
+}
+
+// Corrects the approximation error in AndersonDarlingInf for small values of n
+// Add this to AndersonDarlingInf to get a better approximation
+// (from Marsaglia)
+double AndersonDarlingErrFix(int n, double x) {
+ if (x > 0.8) {
+ return (-130.2137 +
+ (745.2337 -
+ (1705.091 - (1950.646 - (1116.360 - 255.7844 * x) * x) * x) * x) *
+ x) /
+ n;
+ }
+ double cutoff = 0.01265 + 0.1757 / n;
+ if (x < cutoff) {
+ double t = x / cutoff;
+ t = sqrt(t) * (1 - t) * (49 * t - 102);
+ return t * (0.0037 / (n * n) + 0.00078 / n + 0.00006) / n;
+ } else {
+ double t = (x - cutoff) / (0.8 - cutoff);
+ t = -0.00022633 +
+ (6.54034 - (14.6538 - (14.458 - (8.259 - 1.91864 * t) * t) * t) * t) *
+ t;
+ return t * (0.04213 + 0.01365 / n) / n;
+ }
+}
+
+// Returns the AndersonDarling p-value given n and the value of the statistic
+double AndersonDarlingPValue(int n, double z) {
+ double ad = AndersonDarlingInf(z);
+ double errfix = AndersonDarlingErrFix(n, ad);
+ return ad + errfix;
+}
+
+double AndersonDarlingStatistic(const std::vector<double>& random_sample) {
+ int n = random_sample.size();
+ double ad_sum = 0;
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ ad_sum += (2 * i + 1) *
+ std::log(random_sample[i] * (1 - random_sample[n - 1 - i]));
+ }
+ double ad_statistic = -n - 1 / static_cast<double>(n) * ad_sum;
+ return ad_statistic;
+}
+
+// Tests if the array of doubles is uniformly distributed.
+// Returns the p-value of the Anderson Darling Statistic
+// for the given set of sorted random doubles
+// See "Evaluating the Anderson-Darling Distribution" by
+// Marsaglia and Marsaglia for details.
+double AndersonDarlingTest(const std::vector<double>& random_sample) {
+ double ad_statistic = AndersonDarlingStatistic(random_sample);
+ double p = AndersonDarlingPValue(random_sample.size(), ad_statistic);
+ return p;
+}
+
+// Testing that NextRandom generates uniform random numbers. Applies the
+// Anderson-Darling test for uniformity
+TEST(ExponentialBiasedTest, TestNextRandom) {
+ for (auto n : std::vector<int>({
+ 10, // Check short-range correlation
+ 100, 1000,
+ 10000 // Make sure there's no systemic error
+ })) {
+ uint64_t x = 1;
+ // This assumes that the prng returns 48 bit numbers
+ uint64_t max_prng_value = static_cast<uint64_t>(1) << 48;
+ // Initialize.
+ for (int i = 1; i <= 20; i++) {
+ x = ExponentialBiased::NextRandom(x);
+ }
+ std::vector<uint64_t> int_random_sample(n);
+ // Collect samples
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ int_random_sample[i] = x;
+ x = ExponentialBiased::NextRandom(x);
+ }
+ // First sort them...
+ std::sort(int_random_sample.begin(), int_random_sample.end());
+ std::vector<double> random_sample(n);
+ // Convert them to uniform randoms (in the range [0,1])
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ random_sample[i] =
+ static_cast<double>(int_random_sample[i]) / max_prng_value;
+ }
+ // Now compute the Anderson-Darling statistic
+ double ad_pvalue = AndersonDarlingTest(random_sample);
+ EXPECT_GT(std::min(ad_pvalue, 1 - ad_pvalue), 0.0001)
+ << "prng is not uniform: n = " << n << " p = " << ad_pvalue;
+ }
+}
+
+// The generator needs to be available as a thread_local and as a static
+// variable.
+TEST(ExponentialBiasedTest, InitializationModes) {
+ ABSL_CONST_INIT static ExponentialBiased eb_static;
+ EXPECT_THAT(eb_static.Get(2), Ge(0));
+
+#if ABSL_HAVE_THREAD_LOCAL
+ thread_local ExponentialBiased eb_thread;
+ EXPECT_THAT(eb_thread.Get(2), Ge(0));
+#endif
+
+ ExponentialBiased eb_stack;
+ EXPECT_THAT(eb_stack.Get(2), Ge(0));
+}
+
+} // namespace base_internal
+} // namespace absl
diff --git a/absl/base/optimization.h b/absl/base/optimization.h
index 0dcbef3..646523b 100644
--- a/absl/base/optimization.h
+++ b/absl/base/optimization.h
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
#if ABSL_HAVE_BUILTIN(__builtin_expect) || \
(defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__clang__))
#define ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(x) (__builtin_expect(x, 0))
-#define ABSL_PREDICT_TRUE(x) (__builtin_expect(!!(x), 1))
+#define ABSL_PREDICT_TRUE(x) (__builtin_expect(false || (x), true))
#else
#define ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(x) (x)
#define ABSL_PREDICT_TRUE(x) (x)