| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Hironobu SUZUKI <hironobu(at)interdb(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgbench - add pseudo-random permutation function |
| Date: | 2021-03-12 21:12:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20210312211222.GA30770@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2021-Mar-13, Thomas Munro wrote:
> That doesn't sound like a bad option to me, if it makes this much
> simpler. The main modern system without it seems to be MSVC. The
> Linux, BSD, Apple, illumos, AIX systems using Clang/GCC with
> Intel/AMD/ARM/PowerPC CPUs have it, and the Windows systems using open
> source compilers have it.
Hmm. Can we go a bit further, and say that if you don't have 128-bit
ints, then you can use pr_perm but only to a maximum of 32-bit ints?
Then you can do the calculations in 64-bit ints. That's much less bad
than desupporting the feature altogether.
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