Hi, On 2019-10-04 14:27:44 +0530, Ashutosh Sharma wrote: > Is there any specific reason for hard coding the *base* of a number > representing the string in strtouint64(). I understand that currently > strtouint64() is being used just to convert an input string to decimal > unsigned value but what if we want it to be used for hexadecimal > values or may be some other values, in that case it can't be used.
It's a lot slower if the base is variable, because the compiler cannot replace the division by shifts. Greetings, Andres Freund
