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

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Padding on 64-bit
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Msg-id 465DD869.5090704@hagander.net
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In response to Re: Padding on 64-bit  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Padding on 64-bit
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I think that's backwards. We *are* passing them by reference, we should
be considering passing them by value.

//Magnus


Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Added to TODO:
> 
> * Consider allowing 64-bit integers to be passed by reference on 64-bit
>   platforms
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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