Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> Why do we need likely() for base=10, however, base=16 and base=8 don't need?
Yeah, I was a little unconvinced about that too. I concur with writing
it as an if/else chain instead of a switch, but I'm not sure that likely()
adds anything to that.
regards, tom lane