On 2013-01-09 11:45:12 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> How hard is the backend hit by palloc being now an additional function
> call? Would it be a good idea to make it (and friends) STATIC_IF_INLINE?
Missed this at first...
I don't think there's any measurable hit now as there is no additional
function call as I chose to directly do the work directly in
palloc[0]. That causes a minor amount of code duplication but imo thats
ok. I didn't do that for pstrdup() but it would be easy enough to do it
there as well, but I don't think it matters there.
In a quick test I couldn't find any performance difference.
I don't think making them STATIC_IF_INLINE functions would help as I
think that would still require the CurrentMemoryContext symbol to be
visible in the callers context.
FWIW I previously measured whether the function call overhead via mcxt.c
is measurable and it wasn't...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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