On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:19 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On 18/01/2021 16:34, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > So according to your performance benchmark, we're willing to accept a > > 30% performance loss on an allegedly common operation -- numkeep=0 > > numsnaps=10 becomes 49.8ns from 37.6ns. That seems a bit shocking. > > Maybe you can claim that these operations aren't exactly hot spots, and > > so the fact that we remain in the same power-of-ten is sufficient. Is > > that the argument? > > That's right. The fast path is fast, and that's important. The slow path > becomes 30% slower, but that's acceptable. > > - Heikki > >
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