Re: WIP: Faster Expression Processing v4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WIP: Faster Expression Processing v4
Date: 2017-03-21 15:31:08
Message-ID: 32632.1490110268@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2017-03-20 16:06:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... is there a reason why resultnum for EEOP_ASSIGN_* steps is declared
>> size_t and not just int? Since it's an array index, and one that
>> certainly can't be bigger than AttrNumber, that seems rather confusing.

> Not that I can see, no. I guess I might have "overcompensated" when
> changing it from AttrNumber - AttrNumber isn't a good idea because that
> needs an extra move-zero-extend, because 16bit indexing isn't that well
> supported on x86. But that doesn't mean it should be a 64bit number -
> to the contrary actually.

OK, will fix in the edits I'm working on.

regards, tom lane

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