Re: Confusing comment in tidbitmap.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Confusing comment in tidbitmap.c
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Msg-id 20367.1418577086@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Confusing comment in tidbitmap.c  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> The following comment above #define PAGES_PER_CHUNK in tibbitmap.c appears
> to be incorrect:

> "But we
>  * also want PAGES_PER_CHUNK to be a power of 2 to avoid expensive integer
>  * remainder operations.  So, define it like this:"

> I don't quite follow this as it does nothing of the kind.
> Check tbm_page_is_lossy() where we do: bitno = pageno % PAGES_PER_CHUNK;

> Or am I missing something about the compiler optimizing that to: bitno =
> pageno & 255; ?

Exactly.  Any C compiler ever written will do that.
        regards, tom lane



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