Re: Padding on 64-bit - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Padding on 64-bit
Date
Msg-id 200705302000.l4UK0eA05193@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Padding on 64-bit  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: Padding on 64-bit
List pgsql-hackers
Added to TODO:

* Consider allowing 64-bit integers to be passed by reference on 64-bit platforms


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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-29-05 at 16:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > (I imagine someday we'll get around to allowing int8 to be pass-by-value
> > on 64-bit platforms.)
> 
> This could really be a significant performance win: I'm planning to take
> a look at doing it for 8.4.
> 
> -Neil
> 
> 
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