Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6
Date: 2015-08-12 20:43:24
Message-ID: 20150812204324.GC16594@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-08-12 23:34:38 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Andres didn't mention how big the performance benefit he saw with pgbench
> was, but I bet it was barely distinguishible from noise.

I think it was discernible (I played around with changing unrelated code
trying to exclude unrelated layout issues), but it definitely was
small. I think the only reason it had any effect is the reduced overall
code size.

> The point is to make the code more readable, and it certainly achieves
> that.

Exactly.

- Andres

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