Re: Spinlocks and CPU Architectures - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Spinlocks and CPU Architectures
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Msg-id 200510112121.11998.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Spinlocks and CPU Architectures  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> Tom is suggesting having different behaviour for x86 and x86_64. The
> x86 will still run on x86_64 architecture would it not? So we'll have
> two binaries for each OS, yes?

A quick glance around tells me that most free operating systems are 
treating x86 and x86_64 as separate platforms anyway, so having 
different code for each is not a problem.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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