Re: Vitesse DB call for testing

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: CK Tan <cktan(at)vitessedata(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vitesse DB call for testing
Date: 2014-10-17 18:25:00
Message-ID: 20141017182500.GF2075@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-10-17 13:12:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, that's pretty much cheating: it's too hard to disentangle what's
> coming from JIT vs what's coming from using a different accumulator
> datatype. If we wanted to depend on having int128 available we could
> get that speedup with a couple hours' work.

I think doing that when configure detects int128 would make a great deal
of sense. It's not like we'd save a great deal of complicated code by
removing the existing accumulator... We'd still have to return a
numeric, but that's likely lost in the noise cost wise.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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