Re: allow frontend use of the backend's core hashing functions

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 08:16:47AM -0800, Mark Dilger wrote:
> > On Feb 14, 2020, at 8:15 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:33:04AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM Mark Dilger
> >> <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> I have made these changes and rebased Robert’s patches but
> >>> otherwise changed nothing. Here they are:
> >>
> >> Thanks. Anyone else have comments? I think this is pretty
> >> straightforward and unobjectionable work so I'm inclined to press
> >> forward with committing it fairly soon, but if someone feels
> >> otherwise, please speak up.
> >
> > One question. It might be possible to make these functions faster
> > using compiler intrinsics. Would those still be available to front-end
> > code?
>
> Do you have a specific proposal that would preserve on-disk compatibility?

I hadn't planned on changing the representation, just cutting
instructions out of the calculation of same.

Best,
David.
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