Re: hexadecimal to decimal

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It might help if libperl were to be preloaded into the postmaster in the
>> way you created ...

> I tried that after I posted, but only saw roughly 30% improvement (which
> is consistent with my earlier tests IIRC). Not bad, but this still left
> plperl initial call at ~40 msec versus plpgsql at ~4 msec.

Hm.  And the first call to a plpgsql function does require opening a
shared library.  Curious that libperl seems so much more heavyweight
than plpgsql.

            regards, tom lane