Re: [PERFORM] Projecting currentdb to more users - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: [PERFORM] Projecting currentdb to more users
Date
Msg-id 1121199095.8208.245.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] Projecting currentdb to more users  (Mark Rae <mrae@purplebat.com>)
Responses Re: [PERFORM] Projecting currentdb to more users
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On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:06, Mark Rae wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:41:14PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:24, Mohan, Ross wrote:
> > > From AMD's suit against Intel. Perhaps relevant to some PG/AMD issues.
> > Well, this is, right now, just AMD's supposition about Intel's
> > behaviour, I'm not sure one way or the other if Intel IS doing this.
>
> I think its more a case of AMD now having solid evidence to back
> up the claims.
>
> This discovery, and that fact that you could get round it by
> toggling some flags, was being discussed on various HPC mailing
> lists around about the beginning of this year.

Wow!  That's pretty fascinating.  So, is the evidence pretty
overwhelming that this was not simple incompetence, but real malice?

I could see either one being a cause of this issue, and wouldn't really
be surprised by either one.

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