On 08/03/2018 02:39 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
On 08/03/2018 06:40 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
...
I'm not confident on replacing double to float8 partially in gist
code. After the 0002 patch applied, I see most of problematic
usage of double or bare arithmetic on dimentional values in
gistproc.c.
static inline float
non_negative(float val)
{
if (val >= 0.0f)
return val;
else
return 0.0f;
}
It is used as "non_negative(overlap)", where overlap is float4,
which is calculated using float8_mi. Float4 makes sense only if
we need to store a large number of it to somewhere but they are
just working varialbles. Couldn't we eliminate float4 that
doesn't have a requirement to do so?
I'm not sure I follow. The patch does not modify non_negative() at all,
and we still call it like this:
if (non_negative(overlap) < non_negative(context->overlap) ||
(range > context->range &&
non_negative(overlap) <= non_negative(context->overlap)))
selectthis = true;
where all the "overlap" values are still float4. The only thing that
changed here is that instead of doing the arithmetic operations directly
we call float8_mi/float8_div to benefit from the float8 handling.
So I'm not sure how does the patch beaks this? And what do you mean by
'eliminate float4'?
Kyotaro-san, can you explain what your concerns regarding this bit are?
I'd like to get 0002 committed, but I'm not sure I understand your point
about the changes in gist code, so I can't address them. And I certainly
don't want to just ignore them ...
regards
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