Hi all,
> Speaking of which, what about some performance numbers?
OK, benchmarks done:
http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/db/data/postgres.bcTruelen/
Summary: small increase in performance (~1-2% on my machine), at about
1.5 standard deviations from the mean. Profiles show a decent drop in
hits within bcTruelen.
However: Sysbench seems to be quite heavy with the fixed-width char
types, so may end up calling bcTruelen more than most workloads. Would
be nice to get some x86 numbers too, but I don't have a suitable machine
here.
So: The increase in performance is positive on this workload, albeit
fairly minor. Downside is increased code complexity.
Will re-send the patch once I work out how to get git to create a
context diff...
Cheers,
Jeremy
