I think this proposal is the same as [1], so you might want to read that thread.
1- https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/201DD0641B056142AC8C6645EC1B5F62014B919631%40SYD1217 On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 5:38 PM Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: > > Is there any appetite for use of array initializer rather than memset, as in > attached ? So far, I only looked for "memset.*null", and I can't see that any > of these are hot paths, but saves a cycle or two and a line of code for each. > > gcc 4.9.2 with -O2 emits smaller code with array initializer than with inlined > call to memset. > > $ wc -l contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.S? > 22159 contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.S0 > 22011 contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.S1 > > Also true of gcc 5.4. And 7.3: > > 25294 contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.S0 > 25234 contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.S1 -- Raúl Marín Rodríguez carto.com
