Hi
When reading Tom's comment about the bug in my use latestCompletedXid
to slightly speed up TransactionIdIsInProgress patch, I remembered that
I recently stumbled across GCC builtins for atomic test-and-test and
read/write reordering barriers...
Has anyone looked into those? It seems that
Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When reading Tom's comment about the bug in my use latestCompletedXid
to slightly speed up TransactionIdIsInProgress patch, I remembered that
I recently stumbled across GCC builtins for atomic test-and-test and
read/write reordering barriers...
On 9/23/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It doesn't seem very interesting given that (a) we already have working
code for this area, and (b) gcc is not our only target compiler.
I agree. I'd prefer to know exactly what's going on in the atomic
code (rather than having the compiler take
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
I agree. I'd prefer to know exactly what's going on in the atomic
code (rather than having the compiler take care of it for me).
Similarly, it's pretty rare to use GCC on anything but Linux and the
*BSDs as each proprietary UNIX vendor has their own