On 2014-10-17 13:12:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Well, that's pretty much cheating: it's too hard to disentangle what's > coming from JIT vs what's coming from using a different accumulator > datatype. If we wanted to depend on having int128 available we could > get that speedup with a couple hours' work.
I think doing that when configure detects int128 would make a great deal of sense. It's not like we'd save a great deal of complicated code by removing the existing accumulator... We'd still have to return a numeric, but that's likely lost in the noise cost wise. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
