Re: alloca (was: Postgres Speed or lack thereof)

Before this patch is applied, havae we determined wheteher or not its even
a useful thing to pursue? I thought the general conscious was that, for
us, it wasn't...

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Goran Thyni wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > Make you a deal...
> >
> > You build the code such that "#ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA" is true, so that those
> > platforms that either don't support it, or have broken suport for it,
> > aren't affect, and you are most welcome to work on it...
>
> Yeah right, I should keep my mouth shut. :-)
>
> It is a big job, starting getting with getting profiling working on
> my box, analyzing lots of code and then come up with some optimations.
>
> We can start with the patch below to detect alloca() in autoconf.
>
> best regards,
> --
> -----------------
> Gran Thyni
> This is Penguin Country. On a quiet night you can hear Windows NT
> reboot!

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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