On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Min Xu (Hsu) wrote: > Perhaps because P4 is already doing H/W prefetching? > > http://www.tomshardware.com/2000/11/20/intel/page5.html > > I ran the test program on an opteron 2.2G: > Got slowdown. > > I ran it on a PIII 650M: > looks like some speedup to me. >
Ok, I see ... so this optimization relies on the CPU type and even speed. If many programs are fighting for L2 cache, then things will be screwed up. Regards, Qingqing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match