On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:15:00AM -0700, Robert Haas wrote:
> It's fairly far down in the noise on this particular profile, but in
> the low-hanging fruit department, I think we should fix
> ScanKeywordLookup to use a smarter algorithm that is more like O(1)
> rather than O(lg n) in the number of keywords.

+1

> It shouldn't be
> terribly difficult to come up with some kind of hash function based
> on, say, the first two characters of the keyword that would be a lot
> faster than what we're doing now.

I'd look at `gperf', which generates code for this from your keyword list.

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