Re: call popcount32/64 directly on non-x86 platforms - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From John Naylor
Subject Re: call popcount32/64 directly on non-x86 platforms
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In response to Re: call popcount32/64 directly on non-x86 platforms  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: call popcount32/64 directly on non-x86 platforms  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 8:13 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 05:11, John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > 0001 moves some declarations around so that "slow" popcount functions are called directly on non-x86 platforms.
>
> I was wondering if there was a reason that you didn't implement this
> by just changing pg_popcount32 and pg_popcount64 to be actual
> functions rather than function pointers when TRY_POPCNT_FAST is not
> defined? These functions would then just return
> pg_popcountNN_slow(word);
>
> This would save from having to change all the current callers of the
> functions to use the macro instead.  That might be nice for any
> extensions which are using these functions.

Hmm, it wasn't obvious to me that would work, but I tried it and came up with v2. Is this what you had in mind?

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John Naylor
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