wip: prototyping what hamt amending might look like.

basic_test.go

@@ -319,3 +319,46 @@ func TestBuilder(t *testing.T) {
 	qt.Assert(t, node1.Length(), qt.Equals, int64(1))
 	qt.Assert(t, node2.Length(), qt.Equals, int64(2))
 }
+
+func TestCOW(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	builder := Prototype{}.NewBuilder()
+	assembler, err := builder.BeginMap(0)
+	qt.Assert(t, err, qt.IsNil)
+
+	qt.Assert(t, assembler.AssembleKey().AssignString("foo"), qt.IsNil)
+	qt.Assert(t, assembler.AssembleValue().AssignString("bar1"), qt.IsNil)
+	qt.Assert(t, assembler.Finish(), qt.IsNil)
+
+	node := builder.Build()
+
+	qt.Assert(t, node.Length(), qt.Equals, int64(1))
+
+	val, err := node.LookupByString("foo")
+	qt.Assert(t, err, qt.IsNil)
+	valStr, err := val.AsString()
+	qt.Assert(t, err, qt.IsNil)
+	qt.Assert(t, valStr, qt.Equals, "bar1")
+
+	builder.Reset()
+	builder.(*Builder).StartWith(node)
+	qt.Assert(t, assembler.AssembleKey().AssignString("foo2"), qt.IsNil)
+	qt.Assert(t, assembler.AssembleValue().AssignString("bar2"), qt.IsNil)
+	qt.Assert(t, assembler.Finish(), qt.IsNil)
+
+	node2 := builder.Build()
+
+	qt.Check(t, node2.Length(), qt.Equals, int64(2))
+
+	val, err = node2.LookupByString("foo")
+	qt.Assert(t, err, qt.IsNil)
+	valStr, err = val.AsString()
+	qt.Assert(t, err, qt.IsNil)
+	qt.Assert(t, valStr, qt.Equals, "bar1")
+	val, err = node2.LookupByString("foo2")
+	qt.Assert(t, err, qt.IsNil)
+	valStr, err = val.AsString()
+	qt.Assert(t, err, qt.IsNil)
+	qt.Assert(t, valStr, qt.Equals, "bar2")
+}

builder.go

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func (b *Builder) BeginMap(sizeHint int64) (ipld.MapAssembler, error) {
 		return &assembler{node: b.node}, nil
 	}
 	if b.bitWidth < 3 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("bitWidth must bee at least 3")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("bitWidth must be at least 3")
 	}
 	switch b.hashAlg {
 	case multicodec.Identity, multicodec.Sha2_256, multicodec.Murmur3_128:
@@ -112,6 +112,34 @@ func (b *Builder) BeginMap(sizeHint int64) (ipld.MapAssembler, error) {
 	}
 	return &assembler{node: b.node}, nil
 }
+
+// StartWith is an extension to a NodeBuilder which advertises that it can make
+// new data structures with copy-on-write internal memory.
+//
+// It's particularly impactful for something like this HAMT ADL,
+// since it means an appended data structure can be made without lots of copying,
+// and also no need to re-compute the sharding, bucketing, etc for all that data.
+func (b *Builder) StartWith(n ipld.Node) (ipld.MapAssembler, error)  {
+	// Of course, we can only really do this well if the node you give us is the type we know well.
+	if n2, familiar := n.(*Node); familiar {
+		if b.bitWidth != n2.bitWidth() {
+			panic(fmt.Errorf("todo: fallback to a copy?  distinct bitwidth; %v %v", b.bitWidth, n2.bitWidth()))
+		}
+		//if b.hashAlg != n2.hashAlg() { // FIXME oh dear.  This is not recalled and we cannot check it.  (It would be an impossible claim to verify for something serial, anyway, I suppose.)  That... provokes interesting conversations.
+		//	panic("todo: fallback to a copy?")
+		//}
+		if b.bucketSize != n2._bucketSize() {
+			panic(fmt.Errorf("todo: fallback to a copy?  distinct bucket size; %v %v", b.bucketSize, n2._bucketSize()))
+		}
+		// It's also particularly easy to implement this confidently since the internal data structures are immutable in memory, too.
+		// TODO ^ check if this claim is actually true.  I am not sure it is.  I think I see touching of the innards.
+		// We already have a new Node allocated (we assume) by either NewBuilder or by Reset; we'll just smash the memory of the node we're starting with on top of that, and then we go from there.3
+		*b.node = *n2
+		return &assembler{node: b.node}, nil
+	}
+	panic("todo: fallback to a copy?  not this adl impl at all") // REVIEW what the contract of this should be.  I dislike things that can be "suprise!  slow because of argument misalignment we didn't raise to you".
+	// I suppose if we have a well-typed error for this, we can make the decision about whether to fall back to a dumb copy or not something that the top level IPLD functions can choose (...assuming that we also pursue that thought).
+}
 func (b *Builder) BeginList(sizeHint int64) (ipld.ListAssembler, error) { panic("todo: error?") }
 func (b *Builder) AssignNull() error                                    { panic("todo: error?") }
 func (b *Builder) AssignBool(bool) error                                { panic("todo: error?") }