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slashdev on June 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model

It's awesome where performance considerations are paramount. It's awesome in databases. It's awesome in embedded software. It's awesome in operating system kernels.

The fact is sometimes it's good. Saying it's universally bad is going beyond the realm of logic and evidence and into the realm of ideology.

jupp0r on June 20, 2023 [–]

Can you explain how having a global variable is more performant than passing a pointer to an object as a function argument in practice?

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