Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > I can see that being useful for a single-user application that doesn't > have locking or I/O bottlenecks, and doesn't have a multi-stage design > like a database. Do we do enough of such processing that we will _see_ > an improvement, or will our code become more complex and it will be > harder to make algorithmic optimizations to our code?
The main concern I've got about this is the probable negative effect on code readability. There's a limit to the extent to which I'm willing to uglify the code for processor-specific optimizations, and that limit is not real far off. There are a lot of other design levels we can work at to obtain speedups that won't depend on the assumption we are running on this-year's Intel hardware. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster