Re: removing old ports and architectures

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: removing old ports and architectures
Date: 2013-10-16 19:49:54
Message-ID: 20131016194954.GD18048@momjian.us
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 06:35:00PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > - ALPHA (big pain in the ass to get right, nobody uses it anymore)
>
> Yes, for many years now ALPHA has only been useful as a way of
> illustrating how bad it's possible for CPU memory operation reordering
> considerations to get. So I quite agree.

Are there any optimizations we have avoided, or 'volatile' designations
added, only for Alpha? Could we improve other things if Alpha support
was dropped?

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