Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
>> I've got one upstairs (HPPA), and I believe that it's actually a pretty
>> common situation in scientifically-oriented workstations from a few
>> years back.
>
> Last I checked, scientific workstations aren't exactly a common platform for
> PostgreSQL servers.
>
> The question is, for our most common platforms (like AMD and Intel) is the FPU
> notably slower/more contended than integer division? I'd the impression that
> it was, but my knowledge of chip architectures is liable to be out of date.
>
> Can we have a hardware geek speak up?
>
http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/intspd.htmhttp://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/fpspeed.htm
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
