On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:58 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2019-10-04 14:27:44 +0530, Ashutosh Sharma wrote:
> > Is there any specific reason for hard coding the *base* of a number
> > representing the string in strtouint64(). I understand that currently
> > strtouint64() is being used just to convert an input string to decimal
> > unsigned value but what if we want it to be used for hexadecimal
> > values or may be some other values, in that case it can't be used.
>
> It's a lot slower if the base is variable, because the compiler cannot
> replace the division by shifts.
>
Thanks Andres for the reply. I didn't know that the compiler won't be
able to replace division with shifts operator if the base is variable
and it's true that it would make the things a lot slower.
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With Regards,
Ashutosh Sharma
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