Re: Replace some cstring_to_text to cstring_to_text_with_len

Em qui., 31 de ago. de 2023 às 09:51, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
escreveu:

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> On 2023-08-31 Th 07:41, John Naylor wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 6:07 PM Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > Em qui., 31 de ago. de 2023 às 00:22, Michael Paquier <
> michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> escreveu:
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> >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 03:00:13PM -0300, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> >> > cstring_to_text has a small overhead, because call strlen for
> >> > pointer to char parameter.
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> >> > Is it worth the effort to avoid this, where do we know the size of the
> >> > parameter?
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> >> Are there workloads where this matters?
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> > None, but note this change has the same spirit of 8b26769bc.
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> - return cstring_to_text("");
> + return cstring_to_text_with_len("", 0);
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> This looks worse, so we'd better be getting something in return.
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> I agree this is a bit ugly. I wonder if we'd be better off creating a
> function that returned an empty text value, so we'd just avoid converting
> the empty cstring altogether and say:
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> return empty_text();
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Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion, I agreed.

New patch is attached.

best regards,
Ranier Vilela

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