Re: alloca (was: Postgres Speed or lack thereof) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: alloca (was: Postgres Speed or lack thereof)
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.05.9901250137410.76634-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to alloca (was: Postgres Speed or lack thereof)  (Goran Thyni <goran@kirra.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: alloca (was: Postgres Speed or lack thereof)
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Goran Thyni wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > BUGS
> >      The alloca() function is machine dependent; its use is discouraged.
> 
> Gain a big potential speed boost, loose some portability.
> I think most modern unices has a good alloca, DOS and Mac
> don't, but who's porting the server there?
> 
> Any unices out there missing alloca?

Make you a deal...

You build the code such that "#ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA" is true, so that those
platforms that either don't support it, or have broken suport for it,
aren't affect, and you are most welcome to work on it...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 



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