Speed up in-memory tuplesorting.
Per recent work by Peter Geoghegan, it's significantly faster to
tuplesort on a single sortkey if ApplySortComparator is inlined into
quicksort rather reached via a function pointer. It's also faster
in general to have a version of quicksort which is specialized for
sorting SortTuple objects rather than objects of arbitrary size and
type. This requires a couple of additional copies of the quicksort
logic, which in this patch are generate using a Perl script. There
might be some benefit in adding further specializations here too,
but thus far it's not clear that those gains are worth their weight
in code footprint.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/337b6f5ecf05b21b5e997986884d097d60e4e3d0
Modified Files
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src/backend/Makefile | 4 +-
src/backend/utils/sort/.gitignore | 1 +
src/backend/utils/sort/Makefile | 8 +
src/backend/utils/sort/gen_qsort_tuple.pl | 232 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c | 68 +++++----
src/port/qsort.c | 2 +-
src/port/qsort_arg.c | 2 +-
src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm | 8 +
8 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
