Marginal performance hack: remove the loop that used to be needed to

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 39a333aa2b2d659f830a78a7d3c6bd43d4caa692
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-04-30T00:12:08Z
Releases: 8.3.0
Marginal performance hack: remove the loop that used to be needed to
look through a freelist for a chunk of adequate size.  For a long time
now, all elements of a given freelist have been exactly the same
allocated size, so we don't need a loop.  Since the loop never iterated
more than once, you'd think this wouldn't matter much, but it makes a
noticeable savings in a simple test --- perhaps because the compiler
isn't optimizing on a mistaken assumption that the loop would repeat.
AllocSetAlloc is called often enough that saving even a couple of
instructions is worthwhile.

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src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c modified +7 −18