Re: What exactly is our CRC algorithm?

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: What exactly is our CRC algorithm?
Date: 2015-04-14 14:10:59
Message-ID: 552D1FF3.4060201@iki.fi
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On 04/03/2015 05:28 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2015-04-03 00:33:10 +0300, hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi wrote:
>>
>> I came up with the attached.
>
> I like it very much.
>
> src/port/Makefile has (note src/srv):
>
> +# pg_crc32c_sse42.o and its _src.o version need CFLAGS_SSE42
> +pg_crc32c_sse42.o: CFLAGS+=$(CFLAGS_SSE42)
> +pg_crc32c_sse42_srv.o: CFLAGS+=$(CFLAGS_SSE42)
>
> Other than that, this looks great. Thank you.
>
>> BTW, we might want to move the "traditional" and "legacy" crc32
>> implementations out of src/common. They are only used in backend
>> code now.
>
> I agree.

Committed this now, after some further cleanup and reorganizing the
autoconf stuff.

- Heikki

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