| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | mgittens(at)gits(dot)nl (Maurice Gittens) |
| Cc: | dg(at)illustra(dot)com, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, mgittens(at)david(dot)gits(dot)nl, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386) |
| Date: | 1998-03-22 20:00:56 |
| Message-ID: | 199803222000.PAA17475@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> >That said, I have a plan in mind to get a nice performance boost for
> palloc().
> >As a side effect, I will guarantee 8 byte alignment of pointers returned
> >from palloc().
> >
> Does this imply that more memory will be used that strictly necesary under
> linux?
>
> With regards from Maurice.
Actually, perhaps less memory, because malloc memory is not aligned on
double boundaries, but this is all still just conjecture.
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