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Re: Performance problem in aset.c

Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>

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From: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-07-12T06:30:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
At 22:33 11/07/00 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>The only time you may want to do this is if you're doing a special purpose
>allocator like a zone or slab allocator, otherwise it's a pessimization.

That is why it is done (I believe) - memory can be allocated using one
context then freed as a block when the context is no longer used.


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