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@th0114nd th0114nd commented Aug 3, 2026

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SerializeTags previously hand-unrolled its own compare-and-swap sort
for 1-4 tags, duplicating the tuned sorting network already
maintained in TagSet.Sort(), and its >4 tag branch always
heap-allocated the pairs TagSet before also heap-allocating the
output buffer (2 allocations for any tag count above 4).

Both SerializeTags and HashTags now share gatherValidTags/
numValidTags: gather into a small stack array (or a single
exact-size heap allocation past 16 tags) and sort via the real
TagSet.Sort(), then call TagSet.Serialize/TagSet.Hash. This removes
the duplicated sorting logic and reduces SerializeTags to exactly
one allocation for any tag count that fits the stack tier, instead
of two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com


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SerializeTags previously hand-unrolled its own compare-and-swap sort
for 1-4 tags, duplicating the tuned sorting network already
maintained in TagSet.Sort(), and its >4 tag branch always
heap-allocated the pairs TagSet before also heap-allocating the
output buffer (2 allocations for any tag count above 4).

Both SerializeTags and HashTags now share gatherValidTags/
numValidTags: gather into a small stack array (or a single
exact-size heap allocation past 16 tags) and sort via the real
TagSet.Sort(), then call TagSet.Serialize/TagSet.Hash. This removes
the duplicated sorting logic and reduces SerializeTags to exactly
one allocation for any tag count that fits the stack tier, instead
of two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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th0114nd commented Aug 3, 2026

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Superseded by reordered stack — see the new PR chain.

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