Re: New to PostgreSQL, performance considerations - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: New to PostgreSQL, performance considerations
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0612150945440.7368@westnet.com
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In response to Re: New to PostgreSQL, performance considerations  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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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.  That one may
stack usefully with -O2, but probably not with -O3 (3 includes
optimizations that increase code size).

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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