Xenium: cache zip store opening; vectorize cell id encoding #370
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After doing some profiling, I identified 2 bottlenecks:
cell_id_str_from_prefix_suffix_uint32()had some long for loops that could be removed.This PR:
cell_id_str_from_prefix_suffix_uint32()The second part is very interesting: Claude Opus 4.6 suggested a clever bit-shift trick which halves execution time (illustrated below, again with the help of Claude).
Further optimization could be explored for the string concatenation, which is now driving the runtime of the function (10% of total, see flame graph), and is among the top 3 drivers of runtime.
Flame graph:

Explanation of the bit shift trick:
