| From: | tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de |
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| To: | Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc> |
| Cc: | Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Base64 decode/encode performance |
| Date: | 2008-09-10 15:30:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20080910153040.GA30183@tomas |
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:44:00AM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
> Marko Kreen wrote:
[...]
>> - decode does not seem to handle architectures that segfault
>> on unaligned int32 accesses.
>
> Out of curiosity - does this problem exist on any platform for which
> PostgreSQL is currently ported and supported?
HP PA is one of them. Besides, some others hide that behind a painful
(more than a factor of 1.3 -- we are talking software emulation here)
performance hit. More modeern architectures (Alpha, Itanium, IA-64) take
this route.
Regards
- -- tomás
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