> David Gould wrote:
> >That said, I have a plan in mind to get a nice performance boost for palloc().
> >As a side effect, I will guarantee 8 byte alignment of pointers returned
> >from palloc().
>
> Wow, this sounds really good, will you try to prealloc bigger chunks of memory
> to avoid the many system calls ? I was wondering if that could give a speed boost.
Yes to both points.
-dg
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