On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:23:02PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 11:19 AM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Second, you might be correct that the section is wrong. I thought of
> > CPU instructions as something tied to the compiler, so part of the build
> > process or source code, but the point we should be make is that we have
> > these acceleration, not how it is implemented. We can move the entire
> > group to the "General Performance" section, or we can split it out:
>
> Splitting out like that seems like a good idea to me.
Okay, items split into sections and several merged. I left the
CPU-specific parts in Source Code, and moved the rest into a merged item
in General Performance, but moved the JSON item to Data Types.
Patch attached, and you can see the results at:
https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-16.html
> The last one refers to new internal functions, so it could stay in source
> code.
> (Either way, we don't want to imply that arrays of SQL types are accelerated
> this way, it's so far only for internal arrays.)
Good point. I called them "C arrays" but it it into the General
Performance item.
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commit ad5406246b
Author: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Date: Wed May 24 09:54:34 2023 -0400
doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items
Reported-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsEPg8L2MmGqavc8JByC=wf_mnkhn-kknfpkcqh0hyd...@mail.gmail.com
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml
index c30c530065..bb92fe5cf9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml
@@ -472,6 +472,28 @@ Author: David Rowley <[email protected]>
<para>
Improve the speed of updating the process title (David Rowley)
</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<!--
+Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
+2022-08-11 [37a6e5df3] Optimize xid/subxid searches in XidInMVCCSnapshot().
+Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
+2022-08-26 [121d2d3d7] Use SSE2 in is_valid_ascii() where available.
+Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
+2022-08-10 [b6ef16756] Introduce optimized routine for linear searches of array
+Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
+2022-08-26 [e813e0e16] Add optimized functions for linear search within byte ar
+-->
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+Allow xid/subxid searches and ASCII string detection to use vector operations (Nathan Bossart)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ASCII detection is particularly useful for COPY FROM. Vector operations are also used for some C array searches.
+</para>
+
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -1781,6 +1803,17 @@ The IS JSON checks include checks for values, arrays, objects, scalars, and uniq
</para>
</listitem>
+<!--
+Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
+2022-09-02 [0a8de93a4] Speed up lexing of long JSON strings
+-->
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+Allow JSON string parsing to use vector operations (John Naylor)
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
2023-01-19 [5a617d75d] Fix ts_headline() to handle ORs and phrase queries more
@@ -2523,56 +2556,6 @@ Add support for Advanced SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) (NEON) instruct
</para>
</listitem>
-<!--
-Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
-2022-08-26 [121d2d3d7] Use SSE2 in is_valid_ascii() where available.
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow ASCII string detection to use vector operations (John Naylor)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<!--
-Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
-2022-09-02 [0a8de93a4] Speed up lexing of long JSON strings
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow JSON string parsing to use vector operations (John Naylor)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-ARM?
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<!--
-Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
-2022-08-10 [b6ef16756] Introduce optimized routine for linear searches of array
-Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
-2022-08-26 [e813e0e16] Add optimized functions for linear search within byte ar
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow array searches to use vector operations (John Naylor)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<!--
-Author: John Naylor <[email protected]>
-2022-08-11 [37a6e5df3] Optimize xid/subxid searches in XidInMVCCSnapshot().
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow xid/subxid searches to use vector operations (Nathan Bossart)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
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Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
2022-08-28 [36389a060] Enable RandomizedBaseAddress (ASLR) on Windows with MSVC
