On 2017-04-17 17:49:54 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>
> > There's certainly lots more that could be done in the genbki code,
> > but I think all we can justify at this stage of the development
> > cycle is to get the low-hanging fruit for testing speedups.
>
> I threw Devel::NYTProf at it and picked some more low-hanging fruit.
> Attached are separate patches for each change, and here are the runtimes
> of genbki.pl and Gen_fmgrtab.pl, respectively, after each patch
> (averages of 5 runs, in millseconds):
Btw, I think Tom's "more that could be done" was referring more to doing
more upfront work, checking, easier input format, whatnot in the genbki,
not so much performance work... Tom, correct me if I'm wrong.
- Andres