Re: Warm-cache prefetching

From: "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Warm-cache prefetching
Date: 2005-12-09 22:19:37
Message-ID: BFBF42F9.16477%llonergan@greenplum.com
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Tom,

On 12/9/05 2:14 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Luke Lonergan wrote:
>>> It (the compute intensity optimization) is what we did for copy parsing, and
>>> it sped up by a factor of 100+.
>
>> The changes made to COPY were portable, though.
>
> In fact, the changes made to COPY had absolutely nada to do with any of
> the things discussed in this thread.

Yes, they do, you must not have read my post in this thread on compute
intensity and removing pipeline stalls.

> BTW, "sped up by 100%" (which is already an overstatement of what was
> actually accomplished) is a long way from "sped up by a factor of 100".

Wrong again - the code section that did parsing sped up by 100x, but the
overall improvement was *only* 100% in our version and 60% in your version.

- Luke

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