Adds --randomization-alpha flag controlling distribution of repeated queries #564
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Description
#455 introduced a way to controllably randomize range queries in workloads, which is useful in testing caching behavior. One relevant parameter is Zipf alpha, which changes the shape of the Zipf distribution used for repeated queries. If alpha is small, queries will be more evenly distributed, while if it's large the few most common queries will be preferred more.
I intended to include this as a flag in my original PR but I apparently forgot to do this, and currently alpha is hardcoded to 1. This PR exposes
--randomization-alpha
so the user can set this value explicitly.Issues Resolved
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Testing
Manually tested in a debug version of this branch, by checking the value of the flag made it to QueryRandomizerWorkloadProcessor.zipf_alpha, and checking the indices generated for different values of alpha match what we would expect.
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