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From tgl@postgresql.org (Tom Lane)
Subject pgsql: Marginal performance hack: remove the loop that used to be needed
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Msg-id 20070430001208.53EC69FA4DD@postgresql.org
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Marginal performance hack: remove the loop that used to be needed to
look through a freelist for a chunk of adequate size.  For a long time
now, all elements of a given freelist have been exactly the same
allocated size, so we don't need a loop.  Since the loop never iterated
more than once, you'd think this wouldn't matter much, but it makes a
noticeable savings in a simple test --- perhaps because the compiler
isn't optimizing on a mistaken assumption that the loop would repeat.
AllocSetAlloc is called often enough that saving even a couple of
instructions is worthwhile.

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/src/backend/utils/mmgr:
        aset.c (r1.71 -> r1.72)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c.diff?r1=1.71&r2=1.72)

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