Re: Shave a few instructions from child-process startup sequence

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Shave a few instructions from child-process startup sequence
Date: 2014-03-08 03:58:58
Message-ID: 20140308035858.GH16324@momjian.us
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On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:07:21PM -0500, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> This is a performance patch, so it should come with benchmark results
> demonstrating that it accomplishes its intended purpose. I don't see
> any.
>
>
> Yes, this is a performance patch, but as the subject says, it saves a few
> instructions. I don't know how to write a test case that can measure savings of
> skipping a few instructions in a startup sequence that potentially takes
> thousands, or even millions, of instructions.

Are we saying we don't want this patch?

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