Attached is a patch that aligns large shared memory allocations beyond
MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF. The reason for this is that Intel's cpus have a fast
path for bulk memory copies that only works with aligned addresses. It's
possible that other cpus have similar restrictions.
With 7.3.4, it achives a 5% pe
Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Attached is a patch that aligns large shared memory allocations beyond
> MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF. The reason for this is that Intel's cpus have a fast
> path for bulk memory copies that only works with aligned addresses.
This patch is missing a demonstration
Out of sheer shame for a stupid remark, I have implemented a pgenv
contrib module which provides three functions:
set_session_variable (name, value)
get_session_variable (name)
reset_session_variables()
I hope my penance is acceptable...
Mike Mascari
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgenv.tgz
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