On Mar 26, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > Hi all, > > today I've noticed this link on HN: http://plasma.cs.umass.edu/emery/hoard > > Seems like an interesting option for systems with a lot of CPUs that are > doing a lot of alloc operations. Right now I don't have a suitable system > to test it - anyone tried to benchmark it?
It's just another allocator - not a bad one, but it's been around for years. It's mostly aimed at reducing contention in multi-threaded applications, so it's not terribly applicable to strictly single-threaded postgresql. It's licensing is pretty much incompatible with postgresql too. Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
