Re: [PATCHES] Win32 CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() performance - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Qingqing Zhou wrote:

>"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote
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>>... so definitely worth fixing for 8.1 if we can convince ourselves
>>it's correct.
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>Despite the performance, there is one thing I am not exactly sure. Shall we 
>add "volatile" quanlifier to at least pg_signal_queue? The dangerous place 
>is PGSemaphoreLock(). If the compiler cache this value somehow, then we are 
>in trouble, but the original way (check event directly) does not have this 
>problem.
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The fact this question is asked worries me a bit.

Also, I have a small style question - why use a nested if instead of 
just saying
 if (UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE() && WaitForSingleObjectEx(pgwin32_signal_event,0,TRUE) == WAIT_OBJECT_0)

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cheers

andrew