From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance improvements for src/port/snprintf.c
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:48:40 -0400
Message-ID: <14450.1538005720@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180926233205.c72ucwa5xc3ftxce@alap3.anarazel.de>
References: <11787.1534530779@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<20180926233205.c72ucwa5xc3ftxce@alap3.anarazel.de>
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I kinda wonder if we shouldn't replace the non pg_* functions in
> snprintf.c with a more modern copy of a compatibly licensed libc. Looks
> to me like our implementation has forked off some BSD a fair while ago.
Maybe, but the benchmarking I was doing last month didn't convince me
that the *BSD versions were remarkably fast. There are a lot of cases
where our version is faster.
regards, tom lane
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