Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof

From: Goran Thyni <goran(at)kirra(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof
Date: 1999-01-24 22:09:57
Message-ID: 36AB9A35.732B5761@kirra.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I don't think we can or should stop using malloc(), but we can
> ask it for large blocks and do our own allocations inside those
> blocks --- was that what you meant?

I will just jump in with a small idea.
The Gnome crowd is investigating using alloca instead of malloc/free
where applicable. It is a huge save in CPU cycles where it can be used.

regards,
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Göran Thyni
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