Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ron Peacetree <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?
Date: 2005-10-04 10:04:56
Message-ID: 20051004100441.GC17589@svana.org
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:51:32PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Basically, I recommend adding "-Winline -finline-limit-1500" to the
> > default build while we discuss other options.
>
> I add -Winline but get no warnings. Why would I use -finline-limit-1500?
>
> I'm interested, but uncertain as to what difference this makes. Surely
> using -O3 works fine?

Different versions of gcc have different ideas of when a function can
be inlined. From my reading of the documentation, this decision is
independant of optimisation level. Maybe your gcc version has a limit
higher than 1500 by default.
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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