Brian Bruns wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Haroldo Stenger wrote:
>
> > > > that mutating PG thread safe, will slow down a 7.3 release a lot,
> > > > something not wanted by many here.
> > >
> > > Depends on how it is handled ...
> >
> > How do you see it not slowing down, when key developers said their view is that
> > multithreading will pose a major obstacle? Are you envisioning any special
> > approach not already talked about?
>
> Excuse my butting in, but it large part we are talking about changing
> things like:
>
> if (PqSomeStaticOrGlobalVariable) { ... }
>
> to
>
> if (MyPort->PqSomeVariable) { ... }
>
> converting to thread safety should not, at least for this kind of low
> hanging fruit, have any negative performance impact. And from my vantage
> point it takes out a whole lot of "where did that come from and who set it
> when?" kinda questions when reading the code. Of course I'm just getting
> my feet wet so feel free to correct my first impressions.
Just that when I said "will slow down a 7.3 release a lot", I was referring to
*the date of the release*, not its inherent performance, the code to be
multi-threaded or not. It was a software engineering sort of consideration.
Regards,
Haroldo.