Useless division(s) in interval_cmp_value - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

While thinking about Isaac Morland's patch to add abs(interval),
I happened to notice that interval_cmp_value() seems rather
inefficently written: it's expending an int64 division -- or
even two of them, if the compiler's not very smart -- to split
up the "time" field into days and microseconds.  That's quite
pointless, since we're immediately going to recombine the results
into microseconds.  Integer divisions are pretty expensive, too,
on a lot of hardware.

I suppose this is a hangover from when the code supported float
as well as int64 time fields; but since that's long gone, I see
no reason not to do the attached.

            regards, tom lane

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
index 1c0bf0aa5c..1978f85873 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
@@ -2352,20 +2352,17 @@ static inline INT128
 interval_cmp_value(const Interval *interval)
 {
     INT128        span;
-    int64        dayfraction;
     int64        days;

     /*
-     * Separate time field into days and dayfraction, then add the month and
-     * day fields to the days part.  We cannot overflow int64 days here.
+     * Combine the months and days fields into an integer number of days.
+     * Since the inputs are int32, int64 arithmetic suffices here.
      */
-    dayfraction = interval->time % USECS_PER_DAY;
-    days = interval->time / USECS_PER_DAY;
-    days += interval->month * INT64CONST(30);
+    days = interval->month * INT64CONST(30);
     days += interval->day;

-    /* Widen dayfraction to 128 bits */
-    span = int64_to_int128(dayfraction);
+    /* Widen time field to 128 bits */
+    span = int64_to_int128(interval->time);

     /* Scale up days to microseconds, forming a 128-bit product */
     int128_add_int64_mul_int64(&span, days, USECS_PER_DAY);