| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Calling conventions | 
| Date: | 2009-07-17 16:34:29 | 
| Message-ID: | 3159.1247848469@sss.pgh.pa.us | 
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Does anyone have any ideas/opinions/statistics on what the performance
>> difference is between the two calling conventions?
> Version 1 is technically slower if you count the number of instructions,
That would be true if you compare version-0-to-version-0 calls (ie,
plain old C function call) to version-1-to-version-1 calling.  But
what is actually happening, since everything in the backend assumes
version 1, is that you have version-1-to-version-0 via an interface
layer.  Which is the worst of all possible worlds --- you have all
the overhead of a version-1 call plus the interface layer.
regards, tom lane
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