Re: Pre-alloc ListCell's optimization - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Pre-alloc ListCell's optimization
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In response to Re: Pre-alloc ListCell's optimization  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Pre-alloc ListCell's optimization  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Handling the 1-entry case would likely be pretty
> straight-forward, but you need book-keeping as soon as you go to two,
> and all that book-keeping feels like overkill for just a 2-entry cache
> to me.

Incidentally what if I call nconc and pass a second arg of a list that
has the first few elements stashed in an array. Do you copy those
elements into cells before doing the nconc? Does our nconc support
having lists share cells? I suspect it doesn't actually so perhaps
that's good enough.

-- 
greg


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