Re: appendStringInfo vs appendStringInfoString

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: appendStringInfo vs appendStringInfoString
Date: 2013-09-28 11:11:29
Message-ID: 5246B961.50107@vmware.com
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On 28.09.2013 12:44, David Rowley wrote:
> The macro for test 4 was as follows:
> #define appendStringInfoStringConst(buf, s) appendBinaryStringInfo(buf,
> (s), sizeof(s)-1)

If that makes any difference in practice, I wonder if we should just do:

#define appendStringInfoString(buf, s) appendBinaryStringInfo(buf, (s),
strlen(s))

With a compiler worth its salt, the strlen(s) will be optimized into a
constant, if s is a constant. If it's not a constant, we'll just end up
calling strlen(), like appendStringInfoString would anyway. That would
turn a single function call into two in all of the non-constant
callsites, though, bloating the code, so it might not be a win overall.

- Heikki

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