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Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG code. In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the algorithm again in future, should that become necessary. xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family, but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit, and it should be much more trustworthy. It's likely to be noticeably faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily, unlike with random(). It is not cryptographically strong, but neither are the functions it replaces. Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
This directory contains a general purpose data structures, for use anywhere in the backend: binaryheap.c - a binary heap bipartite_match.c - Hopcroft-Karp maximum cardinality algorithm for bipartite graphs bloomfilter.c - probabilistic, space-efficient set membership testing dshash.c - concurrent hash tables backed by dynamic shared memory areas hyperloglog.c - a streaming cardinality estimator ilist.c - single and double-linked lists integerset.c - a data structure for holding large set of integers knapsack.c - knapsack problem solver pairingheap.c - a pairing heap rbtree.c - a red-black tree stringinfo.c - an extensible string type Aside from the inherent characteristics of the data structures, there are a few practical differences between the binary heap and the pairing heap. The binary heap is fully allocated at creation, and cannot be expanded beyond the allocated size. The pairing heap on the other hand has no inherent maximum size, but the caller needs to allocate each element being stored in the heap, while the binary heap works with plain Datums or pointers. The linked-lists in ilist.c can be embedded directly into other structs, as opposed to the List interface in nodes/pg_list.h.