On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:41:26PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:36:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > what exacly do you mean with critical path, here?
>
> Performance critical.
> Most RISC platforms are optimized for 32 and maybe 64 bit structures.
> E.g. First generation alphas (without BWX) can't even access anything
> smaller than 32bit in memory without doing big magic.
> So one byte can become a big impact on performance.
One of the reasons anything < EV56 falls out of favor by dBMS folks these
days.
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