Re: [GENERAL] Creation of tsearch2 index is very slow

From: "Steinar H(dot) Gunderson" <sgunderson(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Creation of tsearch2 index is very slow
Date: 2006-01-20 22:49:15
Message-ID: 20060120224915.GA26821@uio.no
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 05:46:34PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> For an even more extreme speedup, don't most modern CPUs have an asm
> instruction that counts the bits (un)set (AKA "population counting")
> in various size entities (4b, 8b, 16b, 32b, 64b, and 128b for 64b
> CPUs with SWAR instructions)?

None in the x86 series that I'm aware of, at least.

You have instructions for finding the highest set bit, though.

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