Re: Performance improvements for src/port/snprintf.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Performance improvements for src/port/snprintf.c
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Msg-id 14450.1538005720@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Performance improvements for src/port/snprintf.c  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I kinda wonder if we shouldn't replace the non pg_* functions in
> snprintf.c with a more modern copy of a compatibly licensed libc. Looks
> to me like our implementation has forked off some BSD a fair while ago.

Maybe, but the benchmarking I was doing last month didn't convince me
that the *BSD versions were remarkably fast.  There are a lot of cases
where our version is faster.

            regards, tom lane


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