Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> (I wonder if we shouldn't just align every shared memory allocation to
> 64 or 128 bytes. It wouldn't waste much memory and it would make us
> much more resistant to performance changes caused by minor
> modifications to the shared memory layout.)
I could get behind this idea if we had a reasonably clear idea of the
hardware's cache line width, but AFAIK there is no portable way to
identify that. (This is a pretty fatal objection to Simon's original
patch as well...)
regards, tom lane
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