Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup.
We've been speculating for a long time that hash-based keyword lookup
ought to be faster than binary search, but up to now we hadn't found
a suitable tool for generating the hash function. Joerg Sonnenberger
provided the inspiration, and sample code, to show us that rolling our
own generator wasn't a ridiculous idea. Hence, do that.
The method used here requires a lookup table of approximately 4 bytes
per keyword, but that's less than what we saved in the predecessor commit
afb0d0712, so it's not a big problem. The time savings is indeed
significant: preliminary testing suggests that the total time for raw
parsing (flex + bison phases) drops by ~20%.
Patch by me, but it owes its existence to Joerg Sonnenberger;
thanks also to John Naylor for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190103163340.GA15803@britannica.bec.de
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c64d0cd5ce24a344798534f1bc5827a9199b7a6e
Modified Files
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src/common/Makefile | 9 +-
src/common/kwlookup.c | 73 +++---
src/include/common/kwlookup.h | 4 +
src/include/parser/kwlist.h | 3 +-
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile | 13 +-
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/c_keywords.c | 51 ++--
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/c_kwlist.h | 3 +-
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg_kwlist.h | 3 +-
src/pl/plpgsql/src/Makefile | 13 +-
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_reserved_kwlist.h | 5 +-
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_unreserved_kwlist.h | 7 +-
src/tools/PerfectHash.pm | 376 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/tools/gen_keywordlist.pl | 53 ++++-
src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm | 10 +-
14 files changed, 516 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)
