On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 06:06:18PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > And we definitely looked at ARC
> 
> We didn't just look at it. At least one release used it. Then patent
> issues were raised (and I think the implementation had some contention
> problems).

The problem was cache line overhead between CPUs to manage the ARC
queues.

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