Re: [PATCH] Precompute string lengths in PerformRadiusTransaction - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Karlsson
Subject Re: [PATCH] Precompute string lengths in PerformRadiusTransaction
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Msg-id 9d030182-92e8-401b-b82b-3f16917d0e15@proxel.se
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Precompute string lengths in PerformRadiusTransaction  (Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>)
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On 1/5/26 3:51 PM, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>> I noticed that the `PerformRadiusTransaction` function is invoked in a loop,
>> and the function itself contains internal loops that repeatedly call strlen() on the 'passwd' and 'secret' strings.
>> While the optimization gain may be minimal, I still think it’s worth making the change —
>> we can precompute the lengths of these two strings at the start of the function to eliminate redundant strlen()
calls.
> 
> Good find. We may also consider making both passwd_len and secret_len `const`.

I don't think this is a thing we generally do in our code. We have local 
variables all over the place which do not use const.

The original patch looks good to me. While it is not a performance 
critical code path calling strlen() in a loop is not very nice.

Andreas





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