Oleg, Peter, thanks for looking into this!
I hope to benchmark decompression on Silesian corpus soon.
PFA v2 with better comments.
> 27 сент. 2019 г., в 14:41, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> написал(а):
>
> After reviewing this thread and more testing, I think
> 0001-Use-memcpy-in-pglz-decompression.patch appears to be a solid win
> and we should move ahead with it.
>
> I don't, however, fully understand the code changes, and I think this
> could use more and better comments. In particular, I wonder about
>
> off *= 2;
I've changed this to
off += off;
>
> This is new logic that isn't explained anywhere.
>
> This whole function is commented a bit strangely. It begins with
> "Otherwise", but there is nothing before it. And what does "from OUTPUT
> to OUTPUT" mean? There is no "output" variable. We should make this
> match the code better.
I've added small example to illustrate what is going on.
Thanks!
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