Re: refactoring - share str2*int64 functions

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.

Greetings,

Andres Freund