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> On 2000-01-18, Bruce Momjian mentioned:
>
> > Can you run our keywords.c using our method and gperf and see if there
> > is any speed difference?
>
> It seems to have a speed advantage of about 2.5. But in practice that
> means that 1 million words take half a second. It's not a big deal to me,
> I was just wondering before I throw it out. I guess it really only makes a
> difference for compilers, which operate on 1000+ lines.
>
The big difference may be that the compiler has variables/types that are
added dynamically while running, while our list is static. Insert time
for our types is zero because we don't add SQL keywords at runtime.
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