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Adds BamRecordCodecBenchmark, a JMH benchmark of BAM record decoding and encoding; there was none.

  • Synthetic records held in memory as uncompressed BAM, so inflation and I/O are left out: 200,000 paired 150 bp reads with typical aligner tags (SHORT) and 2,000 15 kb reads (LONG).
  • decode (fixed fields only), decodeEverything, and decodeFromBgzf, which reads through a BlockCompressedInputStream as a BAM file is read.
  • encode*: decode, do one thing to each record, encode again. Untouched, a flag change, a tag set, an absent tag removed, every field decoded; plus encodeFromMemory for records built in memory. A decoded record writes its stored bytes unchanged until something marks them stale, and these show what each kind of change costs.

Two PRs that follow are measured with it: keeping the stored bytes when an absent tag is removed, and reading the fixed fields in one call.

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    • Added performance benchmarks for BAM record decoding and encoding, covering compressed and uncompressed data, different read sizes, and record changes.
    • These benchmarks provide performance measurements for common record-processing scenarios. No end-user behavior changes are included.

There was no benchmark of BAM record coding. This one decodes, or
decodes and re-encodes, synthetic records held in memory as
uncompressed BAM, so that inflation and I/O are left out: paired 150 bp
reads with typical aligner tags, and 15 kb long reads. One variant
decodes through a BlockCompressedInputStream instead, as a BAM file is
read, to show what a change to decoding is worth with inflation counted.

The encode benchmarks differ only in what is done to each decoded
record before it is encoded again: nothing, a flag change, a tag set,
an absent tag removed, or every field decoded. A decoded record writes
its variable-length bytes unchanged until something marks them stale,
and these show what each kind of change costs.
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Adds a JMH benchmark that generates synthetic BAM records and measures decoding and encoding across short and long read shapes. The benchmark covers uncompressed and BGZF input, field access, record modifications, and encoding records built in memory.

Changes: BAM codec benchmark

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Synthetic records and BAM inputs
src/benches/java/htsjdk/samtools/BamRecordCodecBenchmark.java
Defines short and long read shapes, generates synthetic records with configured tags, and prepares uncompressed and BGZF-compressed BAM input.
BAM decoding cases
src/benches/java/htsjdk/samtools/BamRecordCodecBenchmark.java
Measures uncompressed and BGZF decoding. A separate benchmark accesses record names, CIGARs, bases, qualities, and attributes.
Record encoding cases
src/benches/java/htsjdk/samtools/BamRecordCodecBenchmark.java
Measures encoding untouched records and records after selected changes or eager field decoding. Also measures encoding prebuilt in-memory records. Uses a counting output stream to count encoded bytes.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Low · previous review e5778

The targeted benchmark command needs correction, but the benchmark remains runnable with a corrected selector.

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