Re: counting pallocs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: counting pallocs
Date: 2012-05-17 12:44:00
Message-ID: 21833.1337258640@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> One piece of reasonably low-hanging fruit appears to be OpExpr. It
> seems like it would be better all around to put Node *arg1 and Node
> *arg2 in there instead of a list... aside from saving pallocs, it
> seems like it would generally simplify the code.

Obviously, Stephen Frost's list-allocation patch would affect your
results here ... but I wonder how much the above change would affect
*his* results. Specifically, the observation that most lists are 1
or 2 elements long would presumably become less true, but I wonder
by how much exactly.

regards, tom lane

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