"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Huh. I'm still curious, because in my test the overhead of those
>> options seemed to be about 3x. So there's still something considerably
>> different between what you did and what I did.
> Are you doing this on a Mac?
I hadn't, but since you mention it: 100000 iterations take about 7.5sec
with non-assert CVS HEAD and 15sec with asserts, on a 2008 Macbook Pro.
Color me still confused.
regards, tom lane