Re: Inlining comparators as a performance optimisation

Robert Haas wrote:
> Markus Wanner took a crack at generalizing the autovacuum machinery
> that we have now into something that could be used to fire up
> general-purpose worker processes, but it fell down mostly because I
> (and, I think, others) weren't convinced that imessages were something
> we wanted to suck into core, and Markus reasonably enough wasn't
> interested in rewriting it to do something that wouldn't really help
> his work with Postgres-R.  I'm not sure where Bruce is getting his
> timeline from, but I think the limiting factor is not so much that we
> don't have people who can write the code as that those people are
> busy, and this is a big project.  But you can bet that if it gets to
> the top of Tom's priority list (just for example) we'll see some
> motion...!

I was thinking of setting up a team to map out some strategies and get
community buy-in, and then we could attack each issue.  I got the 2-3
years from the Win32 timeline.

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