Simplification and performance tweaks in vdbeSorterMerge().

FossilOrigin-Name: 99e34bdce4ccca15b79159b03b96787e7a7ff85b

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Reduce\sthe\snumber\sof\sVdbeRecordUnpack()\scalls\smade\sin\svdbesort.c.
-D 2011-09-03T14:36:13.912
+C Simplification\sand\sperformance\stweaks\sin\svdbeSorterMerge().
+D 2011-09-03T16:42:38.728
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 F Makefile.in d314143fa6be24828021d3f583ad37d9afdce505
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ F src/vdbeapi.c 11dc47987abacb76ad016dcf5abc0dc422482a98
 F src/vdbeaux.c e58acbc5ea3823922a0cd8fa21f94f39af51ee88
 F src/vdbeblob.c f024f0bf420f36b070143c32b15cc7287341ffd3
 F src/vdbemem.c 5e6effb96dd53d233361cbfaa3f0a43b9af689e9
-F src/vdbesort.c 5e38e7e1f5f6900b1b8bea49decd23c69221aed9
+F src/vdbesort.c e6d6f0c2aa003f7cbdea8c9be47a15a8e854fb97
 F src/vdbetrace.c 5d0dc3d5fd54878cc8d6d28eb41deb8d5885b114
 F src/vtab.c 901791a47318c0562cd0c676a2c6ff1bc530e582
 F src/wal.c 3154756177d6219e233d84291d5b05f4e06ff5e9
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ F tool/symbols.sh caaf6ccc7300fd43353318b44524853e222557d5
 F tool/tostr.awk e75472c2f98dd76e06b8c9c1367f4ab07e122d06
 F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl d70ea6d8a19e3571d7ab8c9b75cba86d1173ff0f
 F tool/warnings.sh b7fdb2cc525f5ef4fa43c80e771636dd3690f9d2
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-R f6e37dce79fea0b74c498631cfb45ff1
-U dan
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src/vdbesort.c

@@ -490,44 +490,36 @@ static int vdbeSorterMerge(
   int rc = SQLITE_OK;
   SorterRecord *pFinal = 0;
   SorterRecord **pp = &pFinal;
-  int bKey2InSpace = 0;           /* True if pCsr->aSpace contains key2 */
+  void *pVal2 = p2 ? p2->pVal : 0;
 
-  while( p1 || p2 ){
-    if( p1==0 ){
-      *pp = p2;
-      p2 = 0;
-    }else if( p2==0 ){
-      *pp = p1;
-      p1 = 0;
-    }else{
-      int res;
-      rc = vdbeSorterCompare(pCsr, 0, 
-          p1->pVal, p1->nVal, (bKey2InSpace ? 0 : p2->pVal), p2->nVal, &res
-      );
-      if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){
-        vdbeSorterRecordFree(db, p1);
-        vdbeSorterRecordFree(db, p2);
-        vdbeSorterRecordFree(db, pFinal);
-        pFinal = 0;
-        break;
-      }
-      if( res<=0 ){
-        *pp = p1;
-        pp = &p1->pNext;
-        p1 = p1->pNext;
-        bKey2InSpace = 1;
-      }else{
-        *pp = p2;
-        pp = &p2->pNext;
-        p2 = p2->pNext;
-        bKey2InSpace = 0;
-      }
+  while( p1 && p2 ){
+    int res;
+    rc = vdbeSorterCompare(pCsr, 0, p1->pVal, p1->nVal, pVal2, p2->nVal, &res);
+    if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){
       *pp = 0;
+      vdbeSorterRecordFree(db, p1);
+      vdbeSorterRecordFree(db, p2);
+      vdbeSorterRecordFree(db, pFinal);
+      *ppOut = 0;
+      return rc;
+    }
+    if( res<=0 ){
+      *pp = p1;
+      pp = &p1->pNext;
+      p1 = p1->pNext;
+      pVal2 = 0;
+    }else{
+      *pp = p2;
+       pp = &p2->pNext;
+      p2 = p2->pNext;
+      if( p2==0 ) break;
+      pVal2 = p2->pVal;
     }
   }
+  *pp = p1 ? p1 : p2;
 
   *ppOut = pFinal;
-  return rc;
+  return SQLITE_OK;
 }
 
 /*