Alexander Staubo wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2006, at 17:53 , Ron wrote:
>
>> At 09:50 AM 12/15/2006, Greg Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>>
>>>> The slower is probably due to the unroll loops switch which can
>>>> actually hurt code due to the larger footprint (less cache coherency).
>>>
>>> The cache issues are so important with current processors that I'd
>>> suggest throwing -Os (optimize for size) into the mix people test.
>
> So far I have been compiling PostgreSQL and running my pgbench script
> manually, but this makes me want to modify my script to run pgbench
> automatically using all possible permutations of a set of compiler flags.
I don't know if it's practical, but this link comes to mind:
http://clusty.com/search?query=acovea
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Cosimo
