Tag: Performance
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MariaDB optimization for string related operations
In our upcoming MariaDB 5.3 release Monty optimized the internal string append code for performance. I tested his patch with a plain MariaDB 5.2 vs. a patched MariaDB 5.2 with sql-bench, which showed an overall performance gain around 3%.
The details of the patch Monty describes like this
Patch to optimize string append: While examining a trace output from a mysql-test-run case, I noticed a lot of reallocation calls. This was strange as MariaDB/MySQL was designed to do so few […]