Re: 64-bit vs 32-bit performance ... backwards?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
Cc: "Pgsql-Performance ((E-mail))" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 64-bit vs 32-bit performance ... backwards?
Date: 2006-06-13 01:15:29
Message-ID: 448E11B1.20309@commandprompt.com
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> Empirically... postgresql built for 64 bits is marginally slower than
> that built
> for a 32 bit api on sparc. None of my customers have found 64 bit x86
> systems to be suitable for production use, yet, so I've not tested on any
> of those architectures.

Really? All of our customers are migrating to Opteron and I have many
that have been using Opteron for over 12 months happily.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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