Re: ArrayLists instead of List (for some things)

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: ArrayLists instead of List (for some things)
Date: 2017-11-02 14:22:28
Message-ID: CAKJS1f91L2WYAFsDEgsj7uC-eGZM5XJvriN2uq2UUcWD22q+dQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 3 November 2017 at 03:17, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> We've jacked up the List API and driven a new implementation underneath
> once before. Maybe it's time to do that again.

Maybe, but the new implementation is not going to do well with places
where we perform lcons(). Probably many of those places could be
changed to lappend(), but I bet there's plenty that need prepend.

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David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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