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Re: tweaking MemSet() performance - 7.4.5

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>, Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>, mcolosimo@smtp-bedford.mitre.org, Marc Colosimo <mcolosimo@mitre.org>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-10-01T20:40:03Z
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> MemSet was written when gcc 2.X wasn't even stable yet.  Have you run
> any tests on 3.4 to see if MemSet is still a win with that compiler?

I've done a test years ago that showed that memset is usually at least 
as good as MemSet:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2002-10/msg00085.php

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/