Re: Special-case executor expression steps for common combinations

On 9/10/24 10:54 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 22 Jul 2024, at 23:25, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> wrote:
>>
>> I have bench marked the two patches now and failed to measure any speedup or slowdown from the first patch (removing return) but I think it is a good idea anyway.
>>
>> For the second patch (optimize strict) I managed to measure a ~1% speed up for the following query "SELECT sum(x + y + 1) FROM t;" over one million rows.
>
> That's expected, this is mostly about refactoring the code to simplifying the
> JITed code (and making tiny strides towards JIT expression caching).

Yup! Expected and nice tiny speedup.

>> I would say both patches are ready for committer modulo my proposed style fixes.
>
> I am a bit wary about removing the out_error label and goto since it may open
> up for reports from static analyzers about control reaching the end of a
> non-void function without a return. The other change has been incorporated.
>
> The attached v3 is a rebase to handle executor changes done since v2, with the
> above mentioned fix as well. If there are no objections I think we should
> apply this version.

Sounds good to me and in my opinion this is ready to be committed.

Andreas