Re: qsort (was Re: Solaris)

That is probably the most reasonable conclusion to draw from the results ;-)

cheers

Mark

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>I assume we decided that BSD sort isn't fast enough to warrant replacing
>the native qsort.
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>Mark Kirkwood wrote:
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>>Mike Castle wrote:
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>>>First I added a counter to the compare function, and the most cases, the
>>>glibc implementation was called significantly less often than the BSD
>>>compare function.
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>>Interesting - all examples I tried had glibc compare count higher, do
>>you want to post one of yours?
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>>>In a simple test function, like comparing two ints, then yes, the BSD
>>>implementation was faster. But in a more complex function, say comparing
>>>strings, often times the glibc version was faster. Why? Because the
>>>time spent in the compare function became the overwhelming factor.
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>>Considering strings is a good point - I went away and tried some
>>examples, unfortunately I only managed to see BSD faster, but the
>>difference was not as large as in the integer tests.
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>>regards
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>>Mark
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