Function tryObjectEncoding

src/object.cpp:476–553

Try to encode a string object in order to save space */

/* Try to encode a string object in order to save space */
robj *tryObjectEncoding(robj *o) {
    long value;
    sds s = szFromObj(o);
    size_t len;

    /* Make sure this is a string object, the only type we encode
     * in this function. Other types use encoded memory efficient
     * representations but are handled by the commands implementing
     * the type. */
    serverAssertWithInfo(NULL,o,o->type == OBJ_STRING);

    /* We try some specialized encoding only for objects that are
     * RAW or EMBSTR encoded, in other words objects that are still
     * in represented by an actually array of chars. */
    if (!sdsEncodedObject(o)) return o;

    /* It's not safe to encode shared objects: shared objects can be shared
     * everywhere in the "object space" of Redis and may end in places where
     * they are not handled. We handle them only as values in the keyspace. */
     if (o->getrefcount(std::memory_order_relaxed) > 1) return o;

    /* Check if we can represent this string as a long integer.
     * Note that we are sure that a string larger than 20 chars is not
     * representable as a 32 nor 64 bit integer. */
    len = sdslen(s);
    if (len <= 20 && string2l(s,len,&value)) {
        /* This object is encodable as a long. Try to use a shared object.
         * Note that we avoid using shared integers when maxmemory is used
         * because every object needs to have a private LRU field for the LRU
         * algorithm to work well. */
        if ((g_pserver->maxmemory == 0 ||
            !(g_pserver->maxmemory_policy & MAXMEMORY_FLAG_NO_SHARED_INTEGERS)) &&
            value >= 0 &&
            value < OBJ_SHARED_INTEGERS)
        {
            decrRefCount(o);
            incrRefCount(shared.integers[value]);
            return shared.integers[value];
        } else {
            if (o->encoding == OBJ_ENCODING_RAW) {
                sdsfree(szFromObj(o));
                o->encoding = OBJ_ENCODING_INT;
                o->m_ptr = (void*) value;
                return o;
            } else if (o->encoding == OBJ_ENCODING_EMBSTR) {
                decrRefCount(o);
                return createStringObjectFromLongLongForValue(value);
            }
        }
    }

    /* If the string is small and is still RAW encoded,
     * try the EMBSTR encoding which is more efficient.
     * In this representation the object and the SDS string are allocated
     * in the same chunk of memory to save space and cache misses. */
    if (len <= OBJ_ENCODING_EMBSTR_SIZE_LIMIT) {
        robj *emb;