Re: Performance improvements for src/port/snprintf.c

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> [ let's use strfromd ]

So I'm having second thoughts about this, based on the fact that
strfromd() in't strictly a glibc-ism but is defined in an ISO/IEC
standard. That means that we can expect to see it start showing up
on other platforms (though a quick search did not find any evidence
that it has yet). And that means that we'd better consider
quality-of-implementation issues. We know that glibc's version is
fractionally faster than using sprintf with "%.*g", but what are
the odds that that will be true universally? I don't have a warm
feeling about it, given that strfromd's API isn't a very good impedance
match to what we really need.

I really think that what we ought to do is apply the float[48]out hack
I showed in <30551(dot)1538517271(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> and call it good, at least
till such time as somebody wants to propose a full-on reimplementation of
float output. I don't want to buy back into having platform dependencies
in this area after having just expended a lot of sweat to get rid of them.

regards, tom lane