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#1252 step 2: Spatial Join, Summarize Within and Simplify work on several cores. It follows the overlay tools (#1740) and Erase/Update (#1744).

Measured in a release build on a Xeon Silver 4114 (40 threads), with the data of #1740 (100,000 polygons against 20,000, 64-vertex circles, overlapping) and 1,000,000 points for Summarize Within:

Tool 1 thread 16 threads (the default limit)
Spatial Join, Intersects 2.39 s 0.44 s
Spatial Join, Largest overlap 2.52 s 0.51 s
Spatial Join, Closest 99.12 s 7.51 s
Summarize Within 0.67 s 0.29 s
Simplify 0.92 s 0.16 s

Closest's single-thread time is its nearest-feature search, about 1 ms per target here; that's a separate follow-up. Summarize Within gains less because copying the polygon layer and counting stay on one thread.

How

Each tool's per-feature work runs on parallel::try_map_on, and the rows are made in order on the calling thread, as before:

  • Spatial Join: the join features' conversion, and each target's matches in every match mode. Targets go in batches of 256 per thread (FEATURE_BATCH), so the match lists held at once stay bounded, since one target can match thousands; on one thread that is 256 targets' lists. Rows, merge rules and their notices are made in target order as before.
  • Summarize Within: the polygons each point meets, 65,536 points at a time (POINT_BATCH). A point's list is usually a few polygons, and it is reserved fallibly, so a point in very many polygons is an error, not an abort. Counts, each polygon's points and the statistics are made in point order as before. Smaller batches made it slower than one thread, because a point's work is so small.
  • Simplify: each feature's simplified geometry. The vertex counts and the polar notice are summed in order.

Summarize Within and Simplify now look at Cancel and count their progress. Before, they did neither.

The #1252 rules hold:

  • the output is the same as on one thread, bit for bit;
  • one thread below the usual threshold of features (PARALLEL_FEATURES) and in the browser;
  • the thread count comes from rustgis_data::threads. There's no per-thread scratch beyond a candidate buffer.

One difference, inherited from try_map_on (Near has it too): when two targets' overlaps can't be measured in Largest overlap, a threaded run reports the lowest-numbered one found before the threads stopped. That can be a later row than a one-thread run names. The run fails either way.

Tests

join_count_and_simplify_on_several_threads_are_on_one runs these on 1, 2, 7 and 16 threads and compares every row's geometry and attributes, and the messages:

  • Spatial Join in all seven match modes, one to one with a merge rule, one to many, and only matching;
  • Summarize Within with statistics;
  • Simplify on polygons and lines.

Each join mode must find matches. Features without geometry are included, and the batches are small in tests, so they are crossed.

long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run now also lists Simplify and Summarize Within, which look at Cancel now. The existing Spatial Join, Summarize Within and Simplify tests pass unchanged.

No visible UI change.

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  • Improvements
    • Simplification, summarization, and spatial joins can process features in parallel, improving performance on larger datasets.
    • Long-running operations provide cancellation and progress checks as work proceeds.
    • Results remain consistent across single-threaded and multithreaded processing.

…everal cores (opengeos#1252)

opengeos#1252 step 2. Each tool's per-feature work runs on `parallel::try_map_on`, and the rows are
made in order on the calling thread, so the output is the same as on one thread, bit for bit:

- Spatial Join: the join features' conversion and each target's matches, in every match mode,
  65,536 targets at a time (`FEATURE_BATCH`), so their match lists stay bounded; the rows and
  merge rules are made in target order as before.
- Summarize Within: the polygons each point meets, in the same batches; counts, each polygon's
  points and the statistics are made in point order as before.
- Simplify: each feature's simplified geometry; the vertex counts are summed in order.

Summarize Within and Simplify now look at Cancel and count their progress, which they didn't.
One thread in the browser and below the usual threshold of features.
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Simplify, Summarize Within, and Spatial Join now use thread-configurable parallel processing. Summarize Within and Spatial Join aggregate results in input order. Regression tests compare single-thread and multithread results across tool modes and thread counts.

Changes: Parallel Analysis Tools

Layer / File(s) Summary
Simplify feature processing
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
Simplify computes feature geometries and polar-reach flags in parallel, then updates vertex counts and notices in input order.
Summarize Within point matching
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs
Summarize Within deduplicates selected point rows and matches points to polygons in batches. It updates counts, polygon membership, and statistics input in point order. Batch size is 256 in tests and 65,536 otherwise. The cancellation test now includes Simplify and countPoints.
Spatial Join matching and output
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
Spatial Join converts geometries and matches targets in parallel batches. It applies match modes, keep-all behavior, output rows, merge rules, and distance values in target order. Regression tests compare outputs across thread counts and tool modes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SpatialJoin
  participant GeometryConversion
  participant TargetMatching
  participant OrderedOutput
  SpatialJoin->>GeometryConversion: Convert join geometries in parallel
  SpatialJoin->>TargetMatching: Match targets in parallel batches
  TargetMatching->>OrderedOutput: Provide each target's match list
  OrderedOutput->>SpatialJoin: Apply match modes and merge rules in target order
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Possibly related issues

  • Issue 1252 tracks parallel execution for Spatial Join, Summarize Within, and Simplify. This PR adds parallel per-feature processing to those tools.
  • Issue 1291 calls for cancellation and progress support in long-running analysis tools. This PR adds cancellation and progress checks to the changed processing.
  • Issue 1111 reports slow Summarize Within processing on large layers. This PR parallelizes point-to-polygon processing, but does not implement the issue’s separate streaming or memory-budget proposals.

Possibly related PRs

  • opengeos/RustGIS#1253: Both PRs change Summarize Within’s point membership and statistics processing.
  • opengeos/RustGIS#1400: Spatial Join applies merge rules to target matches, which uses the merge behavior changed in this PR.

Suggested reviewers: mavrick-f

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 0788b

Summarize Within on layers with many polygons can fail for lack of memory even when no points match, so the reservation should be fixed before merge. Spatial Join's memory use is now bounded per batch.

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A rabbit checks each row in flight
Then keeps the output order right
The polygons count each point
While joins meet at every joint
And Simplify trims the view
With threads that help the work pass through

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I read the whole diff (one file, crates/analysis/src/tools.rs), the shared helpers it relies on (parallel::try_map_on, control), and the cancellation test in crates/engine/src/tests.rs. I could not compile or run the tests here, so the build and test status is unverified. There were no prior review threads, so every concern below is new.

Checked and sound: try_map_on returns results in input order, checks control::check and advance per item on both paths, and candidates_into clears its buffer. The count and merge loops keep the original order, the wrappers simplify, count_points and spatial_join are still wired into the tool table, and the code adds no unwrap, expect or panic outside tests.

Bugs

  • Summarize Within, per-point match lists are not allocation-guarded (medium confidence). The met_by batch collects each point's polygon list with an unguarded collect(), and a batch can hold up to 65,536 points. The existing members push uses try_reserve so that overlapping polygons give an error rather than an abort, and this new path can abort instead. Inline comment posted with a suggested fix.

Security

  • None found.

Performance

  • Simplify buffers every result before building the layer (low confidence). It used to stream each feature into out. Peak memory now includes all simplified geometries at once. This is probably inherent to the parallel map, so it is a note rather than a request.
  • Spatial Join and Summarize batching bounds memory per feature, not per match. The doc comments say the match lists "stay bounded", which is accurate only per feature. The Spatial Join matches list is unguarded, but that was already true per target before this PR. Covered in the inline comment above.

Quality

  • Shadowed threads in spatial_join_on (nit). The threads_for closure captures the Option<usize> parameter, which is then shadowed by let threads = threads_for(...). It is correct but hard to read. Left for the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md

  • Cancellation test does not list the two tools that now look at Cancel (high confidence on the gap). Simplify and countPoints (Summarize Within) grow with input and now check Cancel and count progress, but the tools array in long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run does not list them. Inline comment posted with the two lines to add.
  • Ordering rule and LargestOverlap error text (acknowledged, not a blocker). The PR notes that a threaded run can report a different target row in the LargestOverlap error than a one-thread run. The run fails either way, but AGENTS.md asks for the same output bit for bit, so this is a known deviation rather than a fix request.

Already raised earlier: 0 (no prior threads).

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…e Within reserves fallibly (opengeos#1252)

Spatial Join's targets go in batches of 256 a thread, so one thread (the browser, small inputs)
holds 256 targets' match lists, not 65,536. Summarize Within keeps 65,536 points a batch, its own
POINT_BATCH: a point's work is so small that thread-sized batches made it slower than one thread.
Each point's list of polygons is reserved fallibly, an error rather than an abort, as the
polygons' lists of points are. Simplify and Summarize Within, which look at Cancel now, join the
engine's cancellation test.
Comment on lines +4119 to +4126
let mut met = Vec::new();
met.try_reserve(cand_buf.len())
.map_err(|e| format!("Summarize Within: not enough memory to keep each point's polygons: {e}"))?;
met.extend(cand_buf.iter().copied().filter(|&zi| {
zones
.get(zi)
.is_some_and(|(_, mp, z_ext, z_at)| meet_at_a_pole(at, *z_at) || (z_ext.intersects(&ext) && mp.intersects(&pg)))
}));

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Performance / memory (medium confidence, new in this push): try_reserve(cand_buf.len()) reserves room for every candidate polygon the grid returns, not for the polygons the point actually meets. A point can have thousands of candidates and meet three. Each point in a 65,536-point batch keeps its reserved list until the ordered pass, so one batch can hold far more memory than the one-thread code did. A large layer of overlapping polygons could then fail with the new "not enough memory" error on a run that worked before.

Reserving per match keeps the list sized by what is kept:

Suggested change
let mut met = Vec::new();
met.try_reserve(cand_buf.len())
.map_err(|e| format!("Summarize Within: not enough memory to keep each point's polygons: {e}"))?;
met.extend(cand_buf.iter().copied().filter(|&zi| {
zones
.get(zi)
.is_some_and(|(_, mp, z_ext, z_at)| meet_at_a_pole(at, *z_at) || (z_ext.intersects(&ext) && mp.intersects(&pg)))
}));
let mut met = Vec::new();
for &zi in cand_buf.iter() {
if zones.get(zi).is_some_and(|(_, mp, z_ext, z_at)| meet_at_a_pole(at, *z_at) || (z_ext.intersects(&ext) && mp.intersects(&pg))) {
met.try_reserve(1).map_err(|e| format!("Summarize Within: not enough memory to keep each point's polygons: {e}"))?;
met.push(zi);
}
}

let o = overlap(&t_geo, &j.geo);
if !o.is_finite() {
return Err(format!(
"Spatial Join: the overlap of target row {} and join row {} cannot be measured",

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AGENTS.md (same output as one thread, bit for bit) — low severity: when two targets' overlaps can't be measured, a threaded run returns whichever error try_map_on found first, so the message can name a different row than one thread does. The PR description discloses this. Both runs still fail, but the rule asks for identical output. A deterministic version carries the error as that target's result and raises the first one in target order during the ordered pass. Only the error path pays for it. A test for this case would also close the gap that the new test doesn't cover the error path.

one["units"] = "Kilometers".into();
many["units"] = "Kilometers".into();
} else {
one.as_object_mut().map(|o| o.remove("distanceField"));

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Nit (quality): Option::map is used here only for its side effect, and the returned Option is discarded. An if let Some(o) = one.as_object_mut() { o.remove("distanceField"); } reads more plainly. The same applies to the many line below. Left for the release quality pass.

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Bugs

  • None found. I traced the Simplify, Summarize Within and Spatial Join changes against the one-thread paths, including row order, skipped rows, notices, the chunks batch sizes and the cancel and progress hooks in parallel::try_map_on. The new cancellation test entries are registered as tools.

Security

  • None found.

Performance

  • Summarize Within reserves by candidates, not matches (crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:4120, medium confidence, new in this push). try_reserve(cand_buf.len()) sizes each point's list by every grid candidate, though the point usually meets only a few polygons. Across a 65,536-point batch that can hold far more memory than the one-thread code did. On a dense layer of overlapping polygons the run could now fail with the new "not enough memory" error where it used to succeed. An inline comment has a suggestion that reserves per match.

Quality

  • Test nit (crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:11432): Option::map is used only for its side effect. Left for the release quality pass, with the sweep marker.

AGENTS.md

  • Not bit-for-bit on the error path (crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:6118, low severity, high confidence). In Spatial Join's Largest overlap, a threaded run can name a different row in the "cannot be measured" error than one thread does. The PR discloses this. Both runs still fail, but the repository rule asks for identical output. The inline comment suggests a deterministic version, and notes that the new test doesn't cover the error path.

Earlier review threads: three, all resolved or outdated and answered by the author. I didn't re-raise any of them.

Not verified: I had no way to build or run the tests here, so compile-level and test-level claims rest on reading the code.

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// Reserved fallibly: a point in very many overlapping polygons is an error, as the
// polygons' lists of points below are, not an abort.
let mut met = Vec::new();
met.try_reserve(cand_buf.len())

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Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

sed -n '4060,4175p' crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
rg -n 'POINT_BATCH|fn candidates|fn query' crates/analysis/src/tools.rs

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Length of output: 6841


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cat -n crates/analysis/src/parallel.rs | sed -n '1,260p'
rg -n -F -e 'struct AtPoles' -e 'impl AtPoles' -e 'fn merc_extent' -- crates/analysis/src
git diff ea75a701c8af09d44258d91efb13d6431bafe8f9 0788b14cf080fa65cbc4ca865832e7ef301bb955 -- crates/analysis/src/tools.rs | grep -C 12 -F 'met.try_reserve'

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Length of output: 31551


Reserve space for matches, not all candidates.

If the extent index falls back to a linear scan, every polygon is a candidate, even when no point matches. On a 64-bit target, 3,000 candidates and 65,536 points reserve at least 1.46 GiB of match-list capacity. This can exhaust address space or cause a valid zero-count run to fail. Reserve fallibly as matches are added instead.

Suggested fix

-            // Reserved fallibly: a point in very many overlapping polygons is an error, as the
-            // polygons' lists of points below are, not an abort.
+            // Reserve matches fallibly so allocation failure returns an error.
             let mut met = Vec::new();
-            met.try_reserve(cand_buf.len())
-                .map_err(|e| format!("Summarize Within: not enough memory to keep each point's polygons: {e}"))?;
-            met.extend(cand_buf.iter().copied().filter(|&zi| {
+            for zi in cand_buf.iter().copied().filter(|&zi| {
                 zones
                     .get(zi)
                     .is_some_and(|(_, mp, z_ext, z_at)| meet_at_a_pole(at, *z_at) || (z_ext.intersects(&ext) && mp.intersects(&pg)))
-            }));
+            }) {
+                met.try_reserve(1)
+                    .map_err(|e| format!("Summarize Within: not enough memory to keep each point's polygons: {e}"))?;
+                met.push(zi);
+            }
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs at line 4120:
Update the match collection around `met` so it does not reserve capacity based on all entries in `cand_buf`. Add only candidates that pass the existing polygon-match predicate, growing `met` fallibly as each match is added and preserving the current allocation-error behavior.

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