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COUNT(DISTINCT <primitive>) misses a null-free fast path in its update loop #23955

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@viirya

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PrimitiveDistinctCountAccumulator::update_batch inserts values with a per-element Option check (if let Some(value) = value) on every row, even when the input array has no nulls. This is the hot path for COUNT(DISTINCT <int/date/time/decimal>).

The same accumulator's merge_batch already inserts wholesale from the values buffer (self.values.extend(list.values())), so the fast path is available — it's just not applied on the update path.

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When array.null_count() == 0, insert directly from the values buffer, skipping the per-element validity branch — mirroring merge_batch and the null-free fast paths recently added to percentile_cont/median in #23954. Measured ~66% faster on the null-free count_distinct benchmark.

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