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Repeated lookups traverse the same early tree nodes and often deserialize records shared by many IPs. This adds an automatic compact prefix index and a reader-bound, two-entry cache for complete decoded records.

Every reader builds packed five-byte entries covering 8 IPv4 bits and 4 IPv6 bits, using at most 1,360 bytes. This replaces the earlier optional 12/12 index on this branch. There is no index option or added synchronization. Early terminal depths, invalid pointers, missing IPv4 subtrees, and network metadata retain their existing behavior.

reader.record_cache::<T>() creates a mutable cache for one reader and decoded type. cache.lookup(ip)?.data() returns Option<&T> without requiring Clone, Default, or 'static. Two entries receive bounded reuse credits that age every 16 successful cache-miss decodes. Protected entries can survive one-off misses; unused records eventually give way to a new working set. Decode errors leave the cache unchanged. Result offsets and networks always describe the current lookup.

Record caching remains explicit because decode<T>() accepts arbitrary types and returns owned values; making it transparent would change that ownership contract or require cloning/type erasure. Memory depends on T and its allocations, and low-reuse workloads can regress. The 3.9 KiB figure is a measured City workload peak, not a fixed memory bound.

Measurements on a Core Ultra 7 265K, pinned to CPU 0, Rust 1.90.0, default features and UTF-8 validation enabled. Each timing is the median of five samples of at least 200 ms. The uncached reference below averages the before/after medians; both paths use the automatic index and consume the same complete values by reference. Allocation accounting uses a separate build.

Database/type Ordinary lookup + decode Record cache Time change Observed total peak
City 400.7 ns 345.6 ns -13.7% 3,960 B
Country 215.1 ns 136.7 ns -36.5% 2,736 B
ISP 53.4 ns 57.1 ns +6.9% 1,600 B
Residential Proxy (JSON) 58.0 ns 59.8 ns +3.1% 3,608 B
Anonymous IP 26.8 ns 22.6 ns -15.6% 1,436 B

These random traces contain 65,536 uniform IPs per family, shuffled together. Almost all City IPv6 queries miss. The successful-network sensitivity trace gives the City cache almost no reuse and measured about 1% overhead. Warm City reader/index construction took 1.10 µs; empty typed-cache creation and destruction took 17 ns. City peak memory was 3,960 bytes on the random trace and 4,112 bytes on the successful-network trace, excluding the database, reader metadata, allocator overhead, and stack temporaries.

benches/record_cache.rs reproduces the public API comparison, validates complete values and per-IP metadata before timing, and reports raw samples and allocation counts. benches/record_cache_results.json contains the measurements for all five database types and both workloads. The larger experimental cache implementations and result archives are excluded from this change.

Validation:

  • cargo +1.90.0 test --offline: 157 unit tests and 23 doctests passed.
  • cargo +1.90.0 test --offline --all-features: 156 unit tests and 24 doctests passed.
  • cargo +1.90.0 clippy --offline --all-targets --features mmap -- -D warnings passed.
  • cargo +1.90.0 fmt --all -- --check passed.
  • Added coverage for automatic table memory bounds, all tree record widths and IP families, aliased networks, repeated offsets, decode failure/retry, missing records, borrowed data, and adaptation after a working-set change.

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  • New Features
    • Added an optional two-entry record cache that reuses decoded records across lookups while preserving each lookup’s network information. Cached results can borrow from the reader.
    • Readers now use a bounded prefix index to speed up IPv4 and IPv6 lookups, with up to 1,360 bytes of additional index memory.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on lookup indexing, record caching, memory use, and benchmark results.

Move invalid database, decoding, and type mismatch errors out of line. On the pinned production City and Country workloads, cached City-record decoding improves by about 11% with UTF-8 validation enabled. Error contents and validation limits are unchanged.
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Reader lookups now use bounded prefix tables. Readers can create typed caches for decoded records. New benchmarks measure lookup workloads, record-cache behavior, and allocation use.

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Reader lookup and index

Layer / File(s) Summary
Indexed lookup construction and traversal
src/reader.rs, src/reader_test.rs, fuzz/fuzz_targets/reader.rs, src/decoder.rs, README.md, CHANGELOG.md
Reader construction builds bounded IPv4 and IPv6 prefix tables, and lookups start traversal from indexed nodes. Tests and fuzz checks compare indexed and unindexed results, including error outcomes. Documentation describes the index and its memory limits.
Typed record cache
src/cache.rs, src/reader.rs, src/lib.rs, README.md
Readers expose a typed two-entry cache for decoded records. Cache results provide record data and current lookup metadata. Tests cover reuse, misses, decode errors, and borrowed record types.
Lookup and cache benchmarks
Cargo.toml, benches/*, README.md
Benchmark programs measure lookup, decoding, buffer opening, cache workloads, and allocations. Documentation and result files record controls, workload counts, timings, and allocation measurements.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant RecordCache
  participant Reader
  participant Decoder
  Caller->>RecordCache: lookup(address)
  RecordCache->>Reader: lookup(address)
  Reader-->>RecordCache: record offset and current network
  alt cached offset
    RecordCache-->>Caller: cached data and lookup metadata
  else cache miss
    RecordCache->>Decoder: decode record
    Decoder-->>RecordCache: decoded value
    RecordCache-->>Caller: decoded data and lookup metadata
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1207a

The library changes look sound, but the fuzz target still appears to call the index API that this change removed. It likely fails to build and no longer compares indexed lookups against direct traversal. Fix the fuzz target before merging so fuzzing still guards the new traversal.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1a70d

The changes remain confined to database lookup and explicit record reuse. Bounded indexing, reader-bound cache identity and decoding before cache updates constrain the main risks. No introduced security weakness was identified, but exhaustive interruption and downstream compatibility checks remain incomplete.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated attack surface is library-local address traversal and database decoding. Indexing affects every constructed reader; cached retention affects only callers that opt into a cache. Deployment-specific tenant, service or credential exposure is not established by the supplied evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — A cache holds one immutable reader reference and a fixed decoded type. Mutable cache access and borrowed result lifetimes prevent safe callers from replacing retained records while those results remain borrowed. Cache hits still perform address lookup rather than bypassing address-family and pointer-resolution checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The cache bounds retained record count to two, not retained bytes. Memory depends on the decoded type and its allocations, and a successful miss may create a temporary value alongside retained entries. This is explicit resource retention rather than a fixed total-memory guarantee.
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"rustflags": "",
"features": "default; UTF-8 validation enabled",
"measurement": "Nanoseconds per operation; median of five samples, each at least 250 ms for confirmation and 100 ms for screening. Reader holds a borrowed in-memory database buffer; opening excludes disk reads. Decoding requests geoip2::City for both files. The synthetic fixture comes from libmaxminddb-rs a080ed906f3bff0ffe64e316a83678e85c142500 tools/gen-bench-data.",
"retained": "Cold decoder error construction and 64-bit IPv6 traversal apply by default. Reader::with_lookup_index() opts into 12-bit tables, up to 64 KiB. Broad decoder inlining was inconsistent; the 16-bit index used more memory and made random IPv6 misses slower; the 8-bit index saved memory but accelerated successful traversal less.",

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the stale description of the index.

The retained note says that Reader::with_lookup_index() opts into 12-bit tables of up to 64 KiB. The final code builds 8-bit IPv4 and 4-bit IPv6 tables automatically, using at most 1,360 bytes. The indexed results also show open_buffer at about 15 µs, which matches the 12-bit screening data rather than the shipped design. Update the note, or label these results as data from the earlier 12-bit design.

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Update the `retained` description in the benchmark results to reflect the
shipped automatic 8-bit IPv4 and 4-bit IPv6 tables and their 1,360-byte maximum,
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let _ = reader.verify();
let indexed = Reader::from_source(data).unwrap().with_lookup_index();

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Remove the call to the deleted with_lookup_index() API.

Reader no longer has a with_lookup_index() method. The index is now built automatically. The only related method is without_lookup_index(), and it exists only under #[cfg(test)]. As a result, the fuzz target does not compile.

The comparison is also no longer useful. reader and indexed both use the automatic index, so the assertion compares indexed traversal with itself. For a real direct-traversal baseline, add a pub(crate) or fuzzing-feature-gated method that clears the index. Then use that method here.

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-    let indexed = Reader::from_source(data).unwrap().with_lookup_index();
+    // Requires a `#[cfg(any(test, feature = "fuzzing"))]` variant of `without_lookup_index`.
+    let direct = Reader::from_source(data).unwrap().without_lookup_index();

Then compare describe(direct.lookup(address)) with describe(reader.lookup(address)).

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let indexed = Reader::from_source(data).unwrap().with_lookup_index();
// Requires a `#[cfg(any(test, feature = "fuzzing"))]` variant of `without_lookup_index`.
let direct = Reader::from_source(data).unwrap().without_lookup_index();
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Review comment at @fuzz/fuzz_targets/reader.rs at line 33:
Update the fuzz target to compare automatic indexed traversal with direct
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Use bounded 12-bit tables to skip initial tree traversal while preserving terminal prefixes and pointer errors. Keep the packed database and borrowed data unchanged; the index uses at most 64 KiB and is built only when requested. Walk IPv6 tails in 64-bit halves.

Compare 8-, 12-, and 16-bit indexes and decoder alternatives on production City/Country databases and a synthetic competitor fixture. Record timings and reproduction parameters in benches/lookup_results.json. Add differential fixture coverage, word-boundary cases, and indexed-versus-direct reader fuzzing.
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