| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Eliot Gable <egable+pgsql-performance(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: GPU Accelerated Sorting |
| Date: | 2010-08-31 01:58:45 |
| Message-ID: | 21903.1283219925@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> writes:
> On a similar note, is Postgres' Quicksort a dual-pivot quicksort? This can be up to 2x as fast as a normal quicksort (25% fewer swap operations, and swap operations are more expensive than compares for most sorts).
In Postgres, the swaps are pretty much free compared to the
comparisons. Sorry, but the above doesn't especially tempt me...
regards, tom lane
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