Re: brininsert optimization opportunity

On 2023-Jul-03, Soumyadeep Chakraborty wrote:

> My colleague, Ashwin, pointed out to me that brininsert's per-tuple init
> of the revmap access struct can have non-trivial overhead.
> 
> Turns out he is right. We are saving 24 bytes of memory per-call for
> the access struct, and a bit on buffer/locking overhead, with the
> attached patch.

Hmm, yeah, I remember being bit bothered by this repeated
initialization.  Your patch looks reasonable to me.  I would set
bistate->bs_rmAccess to NULL in the cleanup callback, just to be sure.
Also, please add comments atop these two new functions, to explain what
they are.

Nice results.

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