On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:29, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The last time I did some testing, the builtin memset() was significantly > faster on plenty of different platforms.
Oh? Which platforms are you referring to, and what tests were performed? You can find the benchmark results I'm referring to in the archives here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-08/msg02116.php (In some hypothetical world in which MemSet() didn't offer a significant performance improvement, there is no reason to keep it around.) -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings