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From: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: A qsort template
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:49:36 +1300
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:58 AM Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wish we had the same for bsearch... :)

Glibc already has the definition of the traditional void-based
function in /usr/include/bits/stdlib-bsearch.h, so the generated code
when the compiler can see the comparator definition is already good in
eg lazy_tid_reaped() and eg some nbtree search routines.  We could
probably expose more trivial comparators in headers to get more of
that, and we could perhaps put our own bsearch definition in a header
for other platforms that didn't think of that...

It might be worth doing type-safe macro templates as well, though (as
I already did in an earlier proposal[1]), just to have nice type safe
code though, not sure, I'm thinking about that...

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BhUKGLY47Cvu62mFDT53Ya0P95cGggcBN6R6aLpx6%3DGm5j%2B1A...





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