[Development] Short QDateTime optimisation

[Konstantin Tokarev]

02.05.2016, 10:44, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> Hello
>
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/157714
>
> I've just pushed one large commit that changes QDateTime to support a "short
> QDateTime Optimisation". Inspired by the SSO mechanism used in libc++ and
> similar to what we've done to QVersionNumber, I've made QDateTime not allocate
> memory for most uses (local time or UTC, within 2 million years of 1970).
>
> The optimisation is only for 64-bit systems, since QDateTime simply wasn't
> wide enough to accommodate the data. 32 bits isn't enough for storing seconds
> since 1970, much less milliseconds and the extra information we needed. But on
> 64-bit systems, the pointer is split in two: 8 bits for status flags (including
> the LSB indicating it's a short QDateTime) and 56 bits for the millisecond
> count.
>
> The commit is quite large. I will spend some time during the next week seeing
> if I can split it up into bite-sized chunks.
>
> Meanwhile, I'd like to ask for help testing this. Since I've dropped the use
> of QSharedDataPointer, I might have introduced sharing issues. And I'd really
> like someone to run the unit tests on a big-endian system.

Do you mean 64-bit big-endian system, or both 32-bit and 64-bit?

>
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>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Regards,
Konstantin