Re: removing old ports and architectures - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: removing old ports and architectures
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Msg-id 20131016194954.GD18048@momjian.us
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In response to Re: removing old ports and architectures  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: removing old ports and architectures  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 06:35:00PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > - ALPHA (big pain in the ass to get right, nobody uses it anymore)
> 
> Yes, for many years now ALPHA has only been useful as a way of
> illustrating how bad it's possible for CPU memory operation reordering
> considerations to get. So I quite agree.

Are there any optimizations we have avoided, or 'volatile' designations
added, only for Alpha?  Could we improve other things if Alpha support
was dropped?

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