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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.3 vs 7.4 performance
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Msg-id 2550.1075993645@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.3 vs 7.4 performance  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> I'm wondering if we need specific compile-time switches for Opteron.   I know
> we got Opteron code tweaks in the last version,

Not in 7.4.  There is some marginal hacking in the spinlock code in CVS
tip for multi-CPU i386 and x86_64 (viz, add a PAUSE instruction inside
the wait loop) but I'm not sure that will have any significance in real
life.

            regards, tom lane

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