On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:58 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > 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. >
Thanks Andres for the reply. I didn't know that the compiler won't be able to replace division with shifts operator if the base is variable and it's true that it would make the things a lot slower. -- With Regards, Ashutosh Sharma EnterpriseDB:http://www.enterprisedb.com
