Title
A General SIMD-Based Approach to Accelerating Compression Algorithms
Abstract
Compression algorithms are important for data-oriented tasks, especially in the era of “Big Data.” Modern processors equipped with powerful SIMD instruction sets provide us with an opportunity for achieving better compression performance. Previous research has shown that SIMD-based optimizations can multiply decoding speeds. Following these pioneering studies, we propose a general approach to accelerate compression algorithms. By instantiating the approach, we have developed several novel integer compression algorithms, called Group-Simple, Group-Scheme, Group-AFOR, and Group-PFD, and implemented their corresponding vectorized versions. We evaluate the proposed algorithms on two public TREC datasets, a Wikipedia dataset, and a Twitter dataset. With competitive compression ratios and encoding speeds, our SIMD-based algorithms outperform state-of-the-art nonvectorized algorithms with respect to decoding speeds.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2735629
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
inverted index,simd
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 33, 3, Article 15 (March 2015)
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
28
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wayne Xin Zhao1127566.73
Xudong Zhang269563.82
Daniel Lemire382152.14
Dongdong Shan41286.11
Jian-yun Nie53681238.61
Hongfei Yan676335.67
Ji-Rong Wen74431265.98